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Are you even old enough to remember number 1?

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Mickey7@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Kylarean@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first phone was #5

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    • MrNesser@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mine was #6 it was a brick

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  • Thrawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Flip version of 11. The Perl flip.

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  • NarrativeBear@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How’s this not on the list!

    1000044863

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    11 because I was still super young and got my first real job at age 22, and it was still an era when cell phones weren’t requirements, and my parents absolutely weren’t paying for them yet. Felt super cool getting such a crazy phone, but the appeal rubbed off quick once I got those on call calls at 3am…

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?

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    • majari42@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nah, you’re forgetting it’s predecessor 3210. This thing was rock solid. Battery lasted for ages. And snake… snake… snaaaaake! Only lacked a vibrate function…

      And 50% of the ppl in my town had one.

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    • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was looking for it as well!

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Old enough?!

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    • can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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!”

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  • notarobot@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Motorola c115

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My first phone was #3

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    • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same, number 3. Still have the original phone number even!

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      • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Still have the original phone number?! I think you need to enter this fact into the Guinness world records, you might have a world record with that.

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  • sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    9

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    9, but my dad had a 4

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    • proudblond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ouch I had a 4

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    • Jimbabwe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      12 but my dad had a 1!

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      • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        look at this dude with rich parents here

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 (?).

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    • marito@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Damn, are you me?

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  • OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What no bag phone!

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  • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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      • j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Could be. Probably.

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  • Rokin@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember number 1 from when I played GTA Vice City.

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    • Emi@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I remember 4 from GTA San Andreas .

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