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What were you using 10 years ago?
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A cordless phone on a landline. But cordless technology had gotten nice enough you didn't have to worry about it not getting good connection to the base from around where you live 🙂.
I was so happy to just be rid of cords (they just tangle up and are annoying. ANyone remember when it wasn't just landlines that people had but having a cordless phone was a real new technology and it became a race on how to make them get decent connection to the base and not get staticky easily?).
Yeah I probably dated myself to the teens and 20 year olds here.
But yeah, cords suck!! That's what I grew up with. When I was a teen cordless phones were just starting to get popular (or at least cheap enough to not be a prestigious thing. Though at first you had to worry about the call quality).
I was so happy to just be rid of cords (they just tangle up and are annoying. ANyone remember when it wasn't just landlines that people had but having a cordless phone was a real new technology and it became a race on how to make them get decent connection to the base and not get staticky easily?).
Yeah I probably dated myself to the teens and 20 year olds here.
But yeah, cords suck!! That's what I grew up with. When I was a teen cordless phones were just starting to get popular (or at least cheap enough to not be a prestigious thing. Though at first you had to worry about the call quality).
Phil A.
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Yeah, it spent 99.9% of it's life in the car: I only took it out once and felt such an idiot carrying it around on my shoulder that I didn't bother again 😀
I remember my monthly bill being well over £200 (calls were expensive in those days and inclusive minutes hadn't been invented. In fact, you were charged a minimum of a minute for every call even if it lasted 2 seconds!): I'm just glad my company paid them!
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Back in my middle school years in the early 90's, having a pager was already "cool." LOL. Now I see 8-year olds kids with iPhones. My 8-year old sister's best friend already has an old iPhone 3G that her mom gave to her after she upgraded to the 4.
I didn't get my first pager until after I finished high school in 1999 and started working. That was my only form of communication. I would put some song on there for the voicemail message where I had a 1 minute limit to try to impress my friends. Now kids just use Facebook pictures for any self-esteem. LOL.
My first pager was the Motorola LS 750. but I would lose it after only a few months. I think one of the movers stole it when I left it next to the window of our new house. I would get the LS 350 which wasn't as nice, but I used it for two years until I started using my cell phone more.
I can sit and reminisce all this and smile at our good ol' days, but even I have to admit, we have it ALOT better now. Maybe too good now which reduces productivity. When it comes to media content (movies, cartoons, music), I still prefer the 80's and 90's. The older stuff of music tends to always be better for me.
Imagine 10 years ago, Apple was still niche and Sony was on top of the video gaming world selling out their PS2. My, have things changed.
I didn't get my first pager until after I finished high school in 1999 and started working. That was my only form of communication. I would put some song on there for the voicemail message where I had a 1 minute limit to try to impress my friends. Now kids just use Facebook pictures for any self-esteem. LOL.
My first pager was the Motorola LS 750. but I would lose it after only a few months. I think one of the movers stole it when I left it next to the window of our new house. I would get the LS 350 which wasn't as nice, but I used it for two years until I started using my cell phone more.
I can sit and reminisce all this and smile at our good ol' days, but even I have to admit, we have it ALOT better now. Maybe too good now which reduces productivity. When it comes to media content (movies, cartoons, music), I still prefer the 80's and 90's. The older stuff of music tends to always be better for me.
Imagine 10 years ago, Apple was still niche and Sony was on top of the video gaming world selling out their PS2. My, have things changed.
I think I might of had an old nokia. I do remember that at that time flip phones were the rage!!! I went from a nokia to a razor. Thought that was so cool!!!! But I remember that my FIRST phone was this huge and heavy phone with bad reception. Amazing changes since then.
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HAHA!
Yeah, I remember that. A call that lasted 1 minute and 2 seconds would still be charged for 2 minutes!
Some people forget back then, owning a cell phone was still for the niche crowd because of how expensive cell phones and billing was. I always thought whoever owned a cell phone was usually some rich business person. I remember how obnoxious people would get when it started to become mainstream and owning one was so "in" once pagers started to die out. We had folks "pretending" to talk on their phone too. We still have obnoxious folks talking on the phone while in the elevator or airport. That will never go away. At least texting shut some of them up. Now 8-year olds and old ladies have cell phones when it was usually catered for business folks like 20 years ago.
bobr1952
macrumors 68020
I believe this was 1998 or so. Same phone they used on the X-Files: (still have it)
I think I bought my first cell phone in 2001--not sure of the make but it did look at lot like this one. I had it until 2006 when I got an LG flip phone with a regular monthly plan with Cingular. The first phone was a prepaid plan--maybe with ATT before it was Cingular before it was ATT again--or maybe I have that wrong. 😕
Jason Beck
macrumors 68000
StarTac
Me too. I had the motorola brick before it. Those phones were so easy to clone back in the day 😀
Cousin Dirk
macrumors 6502a
2001? I would've been 16. I didn't actually have a mobile 10 years ago, but 9.5 years ago I would've been using this:
/that's the Nokia 3330. It had WAP, meaning I've actually never owned a phone that didn't have mobile internet...
/that's the Nokia 3330. It had WAP, meaning I've actually never owned a phone that didn't have mobile internet...
Nokia 5110. I went through a hell of a lot of these little buggers! I couldn't keep a phone to save my life when I was a teenager heh. I specifically remember having red, orange, silver and blue ones.
I was awesome at snake.
I was awesome at snake.
bmwhd
macrumors 6502a
Uh, 10 years ago was 2001. I'm pretty sure they didn't have Razrs back then (I got my first cellphone in 2002 I believe and I'm pretty sure the Razr didn't come out until a few years after that).
My first cellphone was a Siemens I believe the brand was. It was a piece of crap (free phone) but I was all excited about having a phone that I could call from anywhere. The buttons were hard to press and small but it was basic and it worked. I much preferred the Nokia I replaced it with when my contract ran out (I think that was my favorite non smart phone. It lasted being dropped in a parking lot and left twice in the rain. ONly thing is the battery life would take a hit each time that happened. The flip Nokia I replaced that with wasn't as good but by the time I replaced it the battery wouldn't even last a day of it being in idle and I am always a sucker for trying new technology).
digitard
macrumors 6502a
Motorola Timeport.
Not the ugly candybar phone, but the "sleek" (at the time) flip phone. It was basically a StarTac but it was silver, had a black screen, and colored words instead of the standard green/black combo almost all phones had back then.
It was through MCI Worldcom and I thought it was pimp beyond belief. You could read it anywhere, and in a dark event (I was really into the electronic music scene then) it was crystal clear to read and got reception in the middle of nowhere.
Not the ugly candybar phone, but the "sleek" (at the time) flip phone. It was basically a StarTac but it was silver, had a black screen, and colored words instead of the standard green/black combo almost all phones had back then.
It was through MCI Worldcom and I thought it was pimp beyond belief. You could read it anywhere, and in a dark event (I was really into the electronic music scene then) it was crystal clear to read and got reception in the middle of nowhere.
LapsangSouchong
macrumors 65816
From 1995 I had pagers (and a bag phone that was for "emergencies only"). Then various motorola flip phones starting in about 1997 or 1998. Then in fall 2002 the first sidekick came out. I used sidekicks (every one of them) until about 2009, then got my first iphone as a gift. From then it's been iphones. Now on the 4.
We dumped our land line in about 2004 I think.
We dumped our land line in about 2004 I think.
