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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years ago

It was a simpler time...

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It was a simpler time...

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  • @[email protected]
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    45•2 years ago

    Now there’s some 'member berries

    • @[email protected]OP
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      37•2 years ago

      'memeber sharing ringtones with your friends via Bluetooth?

      • @[email protected]
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        16•2 years ago

        Oh yeah, and giving each person their own ringtone

        • @[email protected]OP
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          4•2 years ago

          Anyone else assign someone the ringtone “silent” ?

        • @[email protected]
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          9•2 years ago

          Remember when snake was the best mobile game. lol.

        • StalksEveryone
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          8•2 years ago

          Many ringtones were basically memes in audio format. Like arnold shwarzeneger talking or akon and lil wayne lyrics. MIKE JONES!

          • @[email protected]
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            2•2 years ago

            218-330-8004.

        • @[email protected]
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          3•2 years ago

          You can still do that on Android.
          You know, if you wanted to.

          • @[email protected]
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            1•2 years ago

            Can’t remember the last time I heard a ringtone. Don’t even know what ringtone I have. The world has turned awfully quiet in that regard.

      • @[email protected]
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        7•2 years ago

        That 8 bit tone of Sweet Child O Mine

      • @[email protected]
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        5•2 years ago

        You mean over IR

        • @[email protected]
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          7•2 years ago

          This thread has two different layers of feeling old

        • @[email protected]
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          deleted by creator

  • @[email protected]
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    22•2 years ago

    I remember having unlimited texts in the evenings and weekends. It used to pop off after 7pm

  • agentshags
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    4•2 years ago

    You guys remember bag phones

    • @[email protected]
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      1•2 years ago

      When these things existing my uncle was driving me somewhere and he had his scanner going in the car. We were able to listen in on those analog phones; crazy to think of these days with ubiquitous encryption everywhere.

  • @[email protected]
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    I remember waiting until 9:01 just so those bastards couldn’t try to charge me shit

  • @[email protected]
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    16•2 years ago

    Hot damn look at that sidekick. What a perfect machine right there. So good the team got hired by Google to port their Hip OS and turn it into Android.

    • @[email protected]
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      9•2 years ago

      The Sidekick is still my all-time favorite phone. I bought the first Android phone, the g1, solely because of the Danger team being involved in it’s development. I still use an Android phone but it’s never been as exciting as that Sidekick was.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 years ago

        Oh is that why the first android phone was so good? I had a developer edition of that and it slapped. Keyboard was amazing

  • @[email protected]
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    3•2 years ago

    Wait, you guys don’t have 24/7 unlimited calling? Wtf

    • @[email protected]
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      If you go back even earlier, you couldn’t even call outside your geographic region. Nationwide calling was a big deal!

      • @[email protected]
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        Long distance charges were a bitch.

    • @[email protected]
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      Uh no, we lived in a first world country thank you very much.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•2 years ago

      Times were tough. I lost friendships over making a call when minutes were tight.

    • @[email protected]
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      No, you had night and weekend minutes. You had a package of texts like 300, 500, 1000, and texts over the limit cost something ridiculous like 15 cents or something.

  • @[email protected]
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    7•2 years ago

    I had one of those Sidekicks!

    • @[email protected]
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      Same! I loved it. Flip flip flip.
      Did you know it had a video out jack on it? You could plug it into your TV and watch YouTube! Lol

      • @[email protected]
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        No way that’s wild

      • @[email protected]
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        Wait what kind of Jack? HDMI wasn’t out then right?

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          Correct. You could plug a yellow video cord into it. Like how you’d hook up a camcorder to your tv

          • @[email protected]
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            1•2 years ago

            Did that carry audio?

            You’re talking rca right? So did you get audio through the phone?

            • @[email protected]
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              I think, and mind you how long ago this was, but I think it was either mono or maybe just the phones speaker. I only tried it once so I’m not really sure on that.

  • @[email protected]
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    2•2 years ago

    My parents have told me…

  • @[email protected]
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    28•2 years ago

    I remember when some friends had unlimited inbound calls. I’d get texts to say call me so they wouldn’t have to pay for minutes lol

    • @[email protected]
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      14•2 years ago

      I had contacts that called, let the phone ring once or twice in order to ensure a missed call on my end, end the call and wait for me to return the call.

  • Rostby
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    11•2 years ago

    Kanye South

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    34•2 years ago

    Unlimited mobile to mobile, free nights and weekends. 500 minutes per month. Good times.

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      Oh shit, I forgot they used to do unlimited minutes only to the same carrier, so long-distance gf and I had to coordinate our carrier choices

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    • Altima NEO
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      I only had 200 minutes, but it was 30 bucks, so I couldnt complain.

      • drzoidberg
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        1•2 years ago

        I still live like I have limited minutes, and can honestly say I don’t think I’ve used more than maybe…20 minutes a month? Maybe less. I just checked my last 3 bills, and t-mobile doesn’t list minutes anymore.

      • @[email protected]
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        4•2 years ago

        After inflation that’s like $700 today though.

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