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Pay-Per-Word

on: May/29/04 and its been viewed 831 times

Too funny. Jess has an update on Movable Types new licensing structure.

Kind of reminds me back in the day when I used AOL back when they charged something like $2.95/hour and didn’t have any local access numbers in my area. My AOL bills combined with my long distance bills grew into the hundreds.

Hmm…how much would it impede your blogging if you were paying per word? I can tell you that this post would look something like this:

Ha!

ha!

Posted on: May 29, 2004 |

Posted in: Blogging

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  1. rachel
    2:12 am on May 29th, 2004

    Would they charge for symbols?

    /\/\0v4bl3 7yp3 c4|\| b173 /\/\3 b3f0r3 1 p4y 7h3/\/\ by 7h3 vv0rd d4|\|g17.

  2. Alicia
    11:31 am on May 29th, 2004

    Too funny. I remember when I used Prodigy over ten years ago and I was charged per email.

  3. Branille
    3:03 pm on May 29th, 2004

    lol Rachel, i’m a geek for being able to read that :P
    ToAnswerYourQuestionI’dJustHaveToTypeLikeThis :mrgreen:

  4. Sweet N Sassy
    5:43 pm on May 29th, 2004

    That is too funny. I bet being creative would become very important!

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