
a lot has changed since we proudly had to wait something like 10 years to obtain a phone line from PLDT, their very famous "party line" system which happened to give us so much “entertainment” - up to modern telephony and those cellular phones today. At the earliest stage we used to send e-mail through international data networks. It used to come to something like two US$ per minute at max. 1200 bps. There was nothing like pictures and even downloading a small script was a pretty costly affair.