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BlueSpot

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16. I want to say late 90's

Reply to GoodRaisin (Reply #15)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:32 PM

Aug 2025

It might have been early 2000's though. I gave up my landline (also part of an internet bundle) much later than that because the bundle was cheaper with it than without. (I'm sure that made sense in some presentation to management.)

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