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Author started in 90s and missed entire generation of 80s suitcase phones
Are you even old enough to remember number 1?
Submitted 1 day ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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- vane@lemmy.world 19 hours ago- FridaySteve@lemmy.world 18 hours ago- This. - Where’s the bag phone?? The carphone??? 
- coaxil@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago- Was Gunna say, these pics are not old enough to give a correct answer for me. 
- jqubed@lemmy.world 15 hours ago- Sometimes my dad would bring that last one home from his job if he was going on a business trip. I remember on one or two occasions he also came home with a Lincoln Town Car that I think was a company vehicle mostly driven by the company president and it had a car phone in it. 
 
- NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 1 day ago- How’s this not on the list! 
- KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
- RBWells@lemmy.world 13 hours ago- YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 hours ago- Never in my house, but I had an elderly lady neighbor in elementary that I would play board games with my siblings that had one. I remember having to use it one afternoon and her teaching me. I don’t remember the lesson exactly, but it definitely didn’t last long. 
 
- JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago- 9. - But I had a sliding faceplate on it so I could be cool like neo. - Also it had Snake. 
- shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago- can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io 1 day ago- For a long time I thought that a rotary phone was one of those old wall mounted phones with the horn that you had to crank to make a call because all of those "things people born after 19XX don't recognize" lists had rotary phones on them. I was born after 19XX and basically everyone I knew had one of these so it couldn't be a rotary phone. - shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago- Hah! Those horn phones were rare in antique stores when I was a child. :) - I remember my parents telling me we didn’t own the phone (pictured) in their bedroom. Turns out it was rented from AT&T. Young me was shocked at the notion. “But it’s in our house!” - At some point we upgraded to a push button version, of our own. Don’t think AT&T wanted the old one back. Got one out of the trash, sitting here now, wife wants me to toss it. “No! That and mom’s cursive typewriter stay!” 
 
 
- ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago- The one with a damn cord, you ageist bastard :P - Also wheres Nokia 3310 
- Rokin@leminal.space 1 day ago- I remember number 1 from when I played GTA Vice City. - Emi@ani.social 1 day ago- I remember 4 from GTA San Andreas . 
 
- TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago- Number 9, or something similar. It was a Bosch without keylock, so it called random people when it was in by school backpack (too big for pocket) as it had soft silicone buttons sticking out. You know, when calling was super expensive. My parents weren’t happy. Soon after I got a Nokia 3210 which had keylock and fitted in my pocket. And had snake. 
- MissJinx@lemmy.world 1 day ago- 9, but my dad had a 4 - Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 1 day ago- 12 but my dad had a 1! - MissJinx@lemmy.world 18 hours ago- look at this dude with rich parents here 
 
- proudblond@lemmy.world 1 day ago- Ouch I had a 4 
 
- shiftymccool@piefed.ca 20 hours ago- Gather 'round chillun and let grampy tell you about the times before cell phones 
- RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 1 day ago- #1 was my 3rd cell phone - realitista@lemmus.org 23 hours ago- Nice. Drug dealer or stock trader? 
 
- Kylarean@lemmy.world 1 day ago- My first phone was #5 - MrNesser@lemmy.world 1 day ago- Mine was #6 it was a brick 
 
- jqubed@lemmy.world 15 hours ago- I had a toy version of number 1. My first was number 4 or a similar model, a hand-me-down from my dad when I started driving and he upgraded to number 5. We actually found number 4 while clearing out the house when moving my parents a couple years ago. Not sure why they still had it; it had been years since anyone used it when they moved in almost 20 years earlier. 
- konalt@lemmy.world 22 hours ago- I feel so young. #18 is still before my time… 
- sheridan@lemmy.world 1 day ago- 9 
- realitista@lemmus.org 23 hours ago
- ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 23 hours ago- Only one (#16) brick phone (non-touch, internal antenna, no moving parts)? 
- RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 18 hours ago- Traveling technical sales 
- Kolanaki@pawb.social 19 hours ago- Only ever saw them in movies originally. But I also grew up in Buttfuck, Egypt so that didn’t help. 
- Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago- When I was a kid you couldn’t choose your phone. Or I guess you could choose between wall mounted of tabletop. They were leased from the phone company when you paid for a phone line. - My grandmother kept her bakelite rotary phone until she couldn’t call her doctor without a touchtone. 
- ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 day ago- Oh my, I recognise #5! My dad had one of those and I inherited it before I got the classic Nokia brick with Snake and Space Invaders (?). - marito@lemmy.world 1 day ago- Damn, are you me? 
 
- OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago- What no bag phone! 
- j4k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago- My first phone was one of the Nokia bricks around the time of the 3310. When I was in middle school my old man carried a pager. He eventually had a phone around #5. My first was somewhere between 7-10. - With my first body shop, I ordered a used Sony Ericsson T800 from eBay that came from Europe. It was one of the first smartphones, pre android and with a resistive touch screen. I knew the utility was far more valuable. A bunch of family and friends swore up and down about their dumb flip phones and razors, and how I was crazy. - stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago- Are you sure it was the T800? I can only find the P800 when googling. - I checks as I had never heard about the T800, but remembered my dad having a P800 for a few years - j4k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago- Could be. Probably. 
 
 
- TwoDogsFighting@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
- loomi@lemmy.world 23 hours ago- Gordon Gecko baby - First actually used was 7 
- gorkur@lemmy.world 1 day ago- Motorola D160. That thing was an absolute tank. Switched to the Nokia 5110 but still kept the D160 for the more rough stuff, camping trips, construction, etc. - Can’t say I miss having that thing strapped to my belt though 😅 
- ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 1 day ago- My first phone was like 18 but also I didn’t get a cellphone until I was nearly 30 
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I was looking for it as well!