Yes, but coming from a world where a long-distance call cost you a fortune, where the only way to talk to strangers from far away was ham radio (or physical travel), where a message took days, sometimes weeks to reach the recipient, it was somewhat inevitable.
My dad and his buddies maintained their own CB Towers in our rural southern back yards to get around expensive land line bills. Added benefit of it freeing up the phone lines access to the BBS we hosted for the computer savvy among the farmers.
Yes, but coming from a world where a long-distance call cost you a fortune, where the only way to talk to strangers from far away was ham radio (or physical travel), where a message took days, sometimes weeks to reach the recipient, it was somewhat inevitable.