my grandparents were on a party line for ast my college graduation
my parents built their house when AT&T started being opened up, so it was a new thing that we had many phone jacks throughout the house without having to pay them
my parents had a single phone line, shared among multiple phones and dialup
in the 80s I started knowing people with multiple phone lines, for dialup and voice.
about 1990 I got my own ISDN connection for high speed internet (arguably before internet existed) so I didn’t have to block my voice line
To be complete, dsl in the late 90s, then fiber in early 00s, gigabit fiber in 2020
Lived through this world
To be complete, dsl in the late 90s, then fiber in early 00s, gigabit fiber in 2020