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06-05-2005, 01:02 AM #1An Awesome Dude
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Call the Internet!
http://calltheinternet.org
If you live in the states, call this number. They claim to be "the internet". I havent called yet
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06-05-2005, 01:23 AM #2Newbie
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Man, that is incredibly strange! Hehe when I see them online I may just give em a call.
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06-05-2005, 01:29 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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I called the number, and someone answered, "Hello, welcome to the Internet! My name is Mario; how can I help you?" It was quite odd, especially considering their status says "offline".
Err... now it says "live". That's weird. I wonder what the heck this is.
EDIT: By the way, he had a very strange accent, almost like those Chevy commercial announcers from the 50s -- sort of "faux British".
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06-05-2005, 06:02 AM #4An Awesome Dude
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YES status still says LIVE....Line is busy though
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06-05-2005, 06:07 AM #5Automation Specialist
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Ask them where the unlimited hard drives are, hey.. if they're the internet, they have all of the knowledge. There must be one somewhere!
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06-05-2005, 06:36 AM #6Aspiring Evangelist
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Can someone ask them where all my 'lost' packets went to. I miss those guys.
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06-05-2005, 07:39 AM #7An Awesome Dude
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Heh
Tinyurl is the answer for posting long urls!!!
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06-05-2005, 08:34 AM #8Web Hosting Master
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Hmm lol that could be a site to help people who dont know what they are doing? Tech support and stuff... or bs? loL? Oh yeah, call them and ask them is their refrigerator running lol...
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06-05-2005, 08:57 AM #9Web Hosting Master
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that is interesting. Too bad i live outside US.
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06-05-2005, 09:57 AM #10Web Hosting Master
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06-05-2005, 11:21 AM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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06-05-2005, 03:45 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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I wonder if we should change our tech support number to this? Let Kyle handle the tough customers!
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06-05-2005, 03:50 PM #13Newbie
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heh, this looks interesting, i might give it a try later today
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06-05-2005, 03:52 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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Kyle?
Anybody any ideas why they've set this up?
My only thought is that is an easy way of selling a product to a customer...
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06-05-2005, 04:00 PM #15Junior Guru
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I'm gonna have to give this a try. Sounds funny
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06-05-2005, 06:31 PM #16Web Hosting Master
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I did a google search to see if this name came up elsewhere and a few places said it was just some dude on the other end there just talking about "whatever". Maybe this guy is bored and when he is on-line he wants to talk to different people on their nickle. Kind of a chat room.. maybe he will get lucky and get some fun conversations. Heck it is free for him right..
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06-05-2005, 06:32 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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Or perhaps it is a scam designed to get phone numbers on their caller ID so they can sell them and make tons of money.
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06-05-2005, 06:34 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by SniperDevil
Or perhaps it is a scam designed to get phone numbers on their caller ID so they can sell them and make tons of money.
Good thinking.. Never thought of that.. very smart.. I wonder if the Do Not Call list prevents them from calling you if you called them first..
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06-05-2005, 07:13 PM #19Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by GWDGuy
Good thinking.. Never thought of that.. very smart.. I wonder if the Do Not Call list prevents them from calling you if you called them first..
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I, too, wonder about the stipulations of the Do Not Call list in this context. Perhaps it was more ingenious than we thought.
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06-05-2005, 07:38 PM #20Web Hosting Master
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Call him and ask if thats what he's doing I wanna see what he says to that!
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06-05-2005, 07:40 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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Originally posted by Philipf
Call him and ask if thats what he's doing I wanna see what he says to that!
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06-05-2005, 11:08 PM #22An Awesome Dude
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I wonder if he would accept a collect call
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06-05-2005, 11:14 PM #23Automation Specialist
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You have a collect call from "A Botnet Owner", will you accept?
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06-05-2005, 11:53 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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LOL! I would rather try the collect call.
Perhaps, this is just a way to run up your phone bill. When the phone bill come out, let us know if it was a 10 dollars flat fee and 4 dollars per extra minutes. Let us know if the money went to keeping his website up.
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06-06-2005, 12:04 AM #25Home Theater Enthusiast
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Originally posted by SniperDevil
That's why I called on my cell phone; I don't get telemarketing calls on it. It also doesn't show up on the other person's caller ID sometimes.
I, too, wonder about the stipulations of the Do Not Call list in this context. Perhaps it was more ingenious than we thought.
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