Who's Old Enough to Remember ?

[junglesnake98]

I am only in my mid 30's but I honestly don't even remember cell phones until I was a teenager. My first Motorola had a pull up antenna, terrible signal but I thought I was the coolest kid of the block...until I learned that my parents could call me at ANY time too!! Yea, we have came a long ways and its only getting better!

 

[dubge]

Yep.....I do too. My son asked me what type of cell phone I had when I was his age....."boy, we didn't have cell phones - if we wanted to make a call, we had to stop at a pay phone". He just stares at me.

funny, a couple months ago my brother had a party for his daughter and my mother, who doesnt have a cell phone, got lost on the way to the party and never showed up, she called a couple hours later when she got back home to explain what happened and I said why didnt you just call from a pay phone? Everyone started laughing and asked when was the last time I saw a pay phone? I know they are out there but I couldnt figure out where there was one.

I remember going to the mall as a kid and having to wait in line at one of those pay phone stations where there was like a dozen phones lined up with kids waiting to use them and it cost 10 cents to make a call

 

[charlier180]

Bag phone? Pfft, I remember the rotary dial on the kitchen wall...

-Suntan

I remember the rotary dial phones.

What about a Party Line?? (ie two homes connected to the same local loop).

 

[junglesnake98]

I remember the rotary dial phones.

What about a Party Line?? (ie two homes connected to the same local loop).

Me too, it took like 5 minutes to dial a number and if it was busy you were screwed. We didn't have call waiting or redial back then.

 

[Ricky Babalu]

From this:

To This:

Then:

Then:

Ummmmmmmmmmm....................I need a nap.

 

[imhipper]

Who remembers snake???

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Ya I remember that guy. He used to race dragsters down a 1/4 mile track as fast as possible didnt he?

 

[TheAssailant]

To This:

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Were the hookers also there or was that the only good photo you could find?

My first 2 phones were LG from the mid-late 00s. I have used a rotary before, though. Only just recently found out you could dial numbers with just the plunger.... also used a record player for the first time a few weeks ago. I was going to invite a couple friends over to listen to my 33 1/3 The Wall album I bought... and then I remembered that I'm 19 living in 2012 and none of my friends care about records :<

I vaguely remember my older sister always wanting a pager...

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[Ricky Babalu]

Were the hookers also there or was that the only good photo you could find?

My first 2 phones were LG from the mid-late 00s. I have used a rotary before, though. Only just recently found out you could dial numbers with just the plunger.... also used a record player for the first time a few weeks ago. I was going to invite a couple friends over to listen to my 33 1/3 The Wall album I bought... and then I remembered that I'm 19 living in 2012 and none of my friends care about records :<

I vaguely remember my older sister always wanting a pager...

Aahhhhh........................young "Grasshopper"

"Kung Fu" David Carradine

 

[xliderider]

Who remembers snake???

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??? Don Prudhomme ???

Ya I remember that guy. He used to race dragsters down a 1/4 mile track as fast as possible didnt he?

Exactly! Thank you! Lol.

And he had a big rivalry with Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen on the funny car drag race circuit.

Mongoose vs. Snake

 

[Ry]

I vaguely remember my older sister always wanting a pager...

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I think I might still have my pager laying around somewhere.

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[imhipper]

The good old pager, I carried one of those around for 13 years.

I cant believe Debbie Gibson didn't have a song " Here's my number ,,,, Page me maybe "

 

[NotJustAPhone]

Who remembers snake???

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Take a trip down memory lane.

https://forums.androidcentral.com/e.../details?id=com.dsd164.snake97&token=Zon04v70

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[dkeven]

Dad's State car had a rotary dial you keyed in to dial towers than got tone and dialed office, First phone was in car, later had a motorola bag phone, those were the days, carried it around at a fair once, man I was an early nerd techie. Snake on the Nokia, analog still the best signal coverage where I lived.

 

[mech1164]

First Cell was a Bag phone with a whole 3 watts of signal power. Was stylin there with Bell Atlantic. Then I moved on the smaller cells but no brick phone. Went to Star Tac (Still a great phone found it but not the charger still looks like new.) Then to a Moto Razor, that lil silver thing not what Moto has now. After that to the Iphone the rest is history.

Yes I am old enough to have regularly used a rotary dial phone both desk wall and wooden phone box pay phone. Where's Methuselah when ya need hi,.

 

[tperry]

My mom had a Startac! Even though I was a teenager, my mom wouldn't let me have a cell phone. Instead I had a pager! Lol

My mom also had those big bricks!

I still have 3 of them in a box in the closet.

TAPPED in on my locked bootloader Verizon S3

 

[tperry]

Bag phone? Pfft, I remember the rotary dial on the kitchen wall...

-Suntan

With a 25 ft coil handset cable.

TAPPED in on my locked bootloader Verizon S3

 

[jrb3]

my first car was a 77 Lincoln town car. equipped with state-of-the-art technologies like carburetors, FM stereo receiver, and an 8-track player.
first "computer," Radio Shack TRS-80C. before the days of a floppy disc, we used a cassette recorder to keep files and programs. Used to tell the computer to listen on the correct port, then hit play on the tape deck before the PC error-ed.
...cassette tapes.
... VHS.
... beta-max.
... laser-disc (the big 14" ones)
...coleco vision, the Atari "knock-off"
...BBS bulletin board services on REAL dial-up modems! (20 years before the Internet, that's what we had kiddies...)

...I remember when I thought a 286 was fast...lemmings had almost no video lag.
oh yeah, the star-tac was prolly the best phone ever....tri-mode cdma. worked everwhere.

 

[RogerThat99]

My dad had one of the first pagers in the Mid 70's, it was the size of a walkie talkie. You listened to the message over a speaker, so everyone had to be quite when it went off. LOL.

I remember the bag phones, but never had one. My first phone was a Techni-Phone (sp?), then a motorola flip, then a Motorola Micro-Tac Elite (with built in answering machine so you could screen your calls), the Star Tac, then Nokia with snake. My first smart phone was an HTC 6700 or something like that with Windows Mobile (which replaced my Palm Pilot Vx).

Regarding history. Pactel (along with other companies) became AirTouch, which became Verizon.

Cellular One became AT&T Wireless.