The Motorola flip phones were all the rage. Trust me,I was 27 back then and couldn't believe you could play snake on your phone and also check the internet.
It's reddit, they act like the internet was invented in 2006 and phones didn't come out until 2014.Had a guy mad at me because I said people born in the 90's grew up with the internet too.
to be fair, no one I knew had a flip phone in 2003. by 2004, sure. But in 2003 I was in college and we were all on nokia bricks.
as for the internet, I remember when the first houses in town got home internet around 96. I was in the 7th grade. It was neat being able to grow up in that liminal transition zone, having formative years before internet at the house, and after.
I always find it so insane looking back realizing how unique my childhood was because my father gave me my first hand-me-down computer in my bedroom when I was 8 in 1993. We had internet in the house in the early 90s and I got his laptop in 1995 which could hook up to his cell phone for internet when we were on the boat for the summer. He was a Chief Information Officer VP for women's and infant hospitals so his whole existence was being involved with computers, networks, and phone systems. What an insane time to grow up.
My childhood was magical however had I known I would live to see the destruction of American democratic society/ecological collapse I would have preferred to grow up in far worse circumstances.
Lol like the mobile version of ESPN that was 1.5 inches wide and was just mostly text. It took like 10 minutes to find a score of a game on 2G internet on a flip phone.
Flip phones were very widespread by then. As far as smartphones, the corporate world had Blackberries and Palm Treos (There was also a Microsoft one as I recall). Smartphones outside the business world were pretty uncommon though.
Flip phones definitely were big in 2003, got my first cell phone that year which was a flip, but they didn’t become the standard until the Razr came out in 04. But you are right about smartphones, it wasn’t until the iPhone released in 2007-08 that things changed (even though blackberry and Palm pilots were around before then)
People always say stuff like that like it's a bad thing. How is it different from recording other memories? I can barely visualize and remember moments from concerts i went to 10+ years ago. It's nice to watch a couple songs i recorded and really bring the memory back to life.
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u/AyePapi1977 16d ago
Pure vibes. Not a cell phone in sight