For the kids out there, calling a number for recorded information was common in the 90s I guess? Movie times was a big one. Where I was locally, multiple surf s

For the kids out there, calling a number for recorded information was common in the 90s I guess? Movie times was a big one. Where I was locally, multiple surf shops did 3-4x daily surf reports. The later was a bit funny because if one of the usual update times was missed you knew the waves were good and the guy was surfing :)