ISP offers free Net phone calls

EarthLink is offering free Internet phone calls to its subscribers. Which is great, as long as you're calling other EarthLink subscribers on the same service. It works a little like Skype's Net voice service, and is thus limiting for now.

But this is death by a thousand cuts for the old phone system. Today it's just EarthLink subscribers, tomorrow everyone on the Net, and the day after that everyone will be on the Net anyway and nobody will remember what an old-style phone call was.