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I was just given shyte by @RamFan503 with a gif of a person using a brick cell phone, because I couldn't read a tweet. Welp, I have a couple of twitter accounts that are now closed to me because I don't have a cell phone anymore. It was just too expensive to keep and I no longer drive 48 states and I live in a very rural area in Kansas with poor cell service, so I can't verify the twitter accounts anymore without being able to text, the f*ckers.
It made think of the next new thing technology wise that I experienced in my life. I know a lot of you old bastids have used the same technology, but it does date you
1. Payphones: these were everywhere. You could go into a nice hotel and see a hallway lined with them. You could make local calls for a dime. Many people did not own a landline in their homes and used pay phones when calling anyone. It was also during the timeframe when public bathrooms required a dime to use a stall/toilet.
2. Call Machine/recorder: Before cell phones and even call answering services. My Dad was a salesman during this time in SoCal, and he could go weeks without talking to his boss. There was no instantaneous communication possible without leaving a message.
3. Beepers: Not sure if this one came first or the "car" cell phone. If you wanted to look cool and important, you had one of these publicly attached to your belt. Each had it's own attached phone number and it would beep when you got a call, and it would display the number for a call back. @Merlin had one of these when he rocked his mullet in the 80's.
4. Car Cellphone/Brick: If you were Don Johnson in Miami Vice, you had one of these. Rich Yuppies like @RamFan503 had one of these, as he developed his signature brand bbq sauces for his restaurant. The unexpected benefit of these brick phones was the possible risk of brain cancer due to the transmitting power of the things....
5. Flip cellphones/Razrs/Blackberries:/Ipjones these replaced the bricks and you could put them in your pocket. The blackberries were also called "crackberries" because people were so addicted to them. Of course personal computers and the internet were a thing, along with texting. And now I can't verify that I really exist unless I am hooked into a trackable network. @nighttrain and myself just say no! Rage against the machine!
So where do you all fit in technology wise? Who are the whippersnappers who think the flip phone was the beginning of communication technology?
It made think of the next new thing technology wise that I experienced in my life. I know a lot of you old bastids have used the same technology, but it does date you
1. Payphones: these were everywhere. You could go into a nice hotel and see a hallway lined with them. You could make local calls for a dime. Many people did not own a landline in their homes and used pay phones when calling anyone. It was also during the timeframe when public bathrooms required a dime to use a stall/toilet.
2. Call Machine/recorder: Before cell phones and even call answering services. My Dad was a salesman during this time in SoCal, and he could go weeks without talking to his boss. There was no instantaneous communication possible without leaving a message.
3. Beepers: Not sure if this one came first or the "car" cell phone. If you wanted to look cool and important, you had one of these publicly attached to your belt. Each had it's own attached phone number and it would beep when you got a call, and it would display the number for a call back. @Merlin had one of these when he rocked his mullet in the 80's.
4. Car Cellphone/Brick: If you were Don Johnson in Miami Vice, you had one of these. Rich Yuppies like @RamFan503 had one of these, as he developed his signature brand bbq sauces for his restaurant. The unexpected benefit of these brick phones was the possible risk of brain cancer due to the transmitting power of the things....
5. Flip cellphones/Razrs/Blackberries:/Ipjones these replaced the bricks and you could put them in your pocket. The blackberries were also called "crackberries" because people were so addicted to them. Of course personal computers and the internet were a thing, along with texting. And now I can't verify that I really exist unless I am hooked into a trackable network. @nighttrain and myself just say no! Rage against the machine!
So where do you all fit in technology wise? Who are the whippersnappers who think the flip phone was the beginning of communication technology?
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