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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone  "
I got one of those slide up LG phones for my 10th birthday but I remember these phones |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"16 but only because I moved away from home/friends and needed to keep in touch.
It was a massive Motorola and I was absolutely blown away when someone showed me how to send a text
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 bless you. Motorolas were fancy in my youth |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone
I remember having to programme them in on the phones "
Haha back when you used to have to pay for them??  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Must have been 16/17, think it was a Mitsubishi thing with a flip cover over the keys, very shit… funny thing was I couldn’t even use it where I wanted as I lived in a place with no mobile signal! Haha |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone
I got one of those slide up LG phones for my 10th birthday but I remember these phones "
Hahaa I remember those. I also remember being about 13 and everyone getting those Motorola Razor flip phones in bright pink...
I got a T Mobile G1 with a slide-out keyboard when I was 14. It was one of the first phones you could get apps on... I was the coolest kid in my year that year  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I was about 10 but it was only because my older sister used to take me and my brother to school but leave us at the end of the street so she could go to her school so I needed a way to contact her if she was late. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone
I got one of those slide up LG phones for my 10th birthday but I remember these phones
Hahaa I remember those. I also remember being about 13 and everyone getting those Motorola Razor flip phones in bright pink...
I got a T Mobile G1 with a slide-out keyboard when I was 14. It was one of the first phones you could get apps on... I was the coolest kid in my year that year "
Omg I remember these phones. Someone in my year had the G1 and I was SO jealous. But when I was 12/13 blackberries had become the thing.
The Motorola razors were so cool- my mum bought one and I used to tell my friends to make her seem cool |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"18-19! My brother and I bought it between us, something like 50p per minute for a call 
I’m not even going to put the year…I feel sooo old. "
50p A MINUTE?!?! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"13 and it was a Nokia 3330 who remembers Snake? Haha "
I bought a brick phone a few years ago and banged out snake ALL the time. Just like in the good old days  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I was about 10 but it was only because my older sister used to take me and my brother to school but leave us at the end of the street so she could go to her school so I needed a way to contact her if she was late."
You were 10 as well. Cool kid  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I was about 10 but it was only because my older sister used to take me and my brother to school but leave us at the end of the street so she could go to her school so I needed a way to contact her if she was late.
You were 10 as well. Cool kid "
I was a bit disappointed because none of my friends had one so I could only text my middle aged cousin |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"18-19! My brother and I bought it between us, something like 50p per minute for a call
I’m not even going to put the year…I feel sooo old.
50p A MINUTE?!?! "
I know right. And it was on peak and off peak tariffs. I remember someone giving me a quid or something to call a cab once.
Damn. I had a pager too. (Valid reason for that ‘poser gadget’.) but man, how times moved so quickly.
I remember being charged 12p for a text when that became a thing.
*interesting story behind the text messages actually.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.
How did you communicate with people before then? "
Steeeeeve
Through cave paintings, duh |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.
How did you communicate with people before then?
Steeeeeve
Through cave paintings, duh"
. Wow! That’s even before the days of sending messages with ravens |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.
How did you communicate with people before then?
Steeeeeve
Through cave paintings, duh
. Wow! That’s even before the days of sending messages with ravens"
You cheeky sod |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.
How did you communicate with people before then?
I used parchment and a quill"
oh of course! Silly me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"16, when i was in my 1st weekend job. But i was super cool and had a pager in my last year of school, you know, for all those emergencies i had then  . X "
Omg I had a pager too
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"38 in 2000
It was a Motorola something or other with a little stubby aerial, payg on One 2 One. An ex's parents bought us matching ones for Xmas  "
Omg this story has made my morning. Aerial? Matching ones. Woah |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"43 in 1983 A brick size mobile, and a separate fixed in car phone.
Two different systems two different numbers."
no way there was mobiles in 1983???  |
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I think I was 12/13. It was my dad's old one and it was so my mum could get hold of me when I went out after school and I didn't really use it because it often only got topped up about £5 so I could make emergency calls. I was probably about 14 when I actually started texting my friends when they brought out those unlimited text deals when you top up so much. |
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It would have been around 1994 just before leaving school and it was an old Erickson with a two line text display and and the removable coloured key surround, then I went on to get a Nokia 3210 (for snake ofcourse) |
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"It would have been around 1994 just before leaving school and it was an old Erickson with a two line text display and and the removable coloured key surround, then I went on to get a Nokia 3210 (for snake ofcourse)"
Snake! |
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"Age 17. It was my Christmas present that year. I think texts were 10p each, and the first thing I did was to text my secret boyfriend "
Texts were 50 cents a pop when I got my first phone. About 25p.
People laugh at txt spk. It was frugality |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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An Ericsson at 18. My father had a mobile with a huge battery pack you’d have to carry with it. Would cost a fortune to phone him and then he’d moan we’d called and disturbed him! Nightmare |
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"43 in 1983 A brick size mobile, and a separate fixed in car phone.
Two different systems two different numbers. no way there was mobiles in 1983??? "
Google says the first mobile phone call made in UK was 1985 |
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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago
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"43 in 1983 A brick size mobile, and a separate fixed in car phone.
Two different systems two different numbers. no way there was mobiles in 1983??? "
First hand held mobile in USA 1973, in UK 1983 Motorola 8000x, I was working as a contractor for Cellnet in the Milton Keynes area but having double checked it would have been 1985 not 1983. these hand held phones were not available to the public at this time but I believe in car ones were. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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About 15. I was always out and about problem was it was a PAYG and phoning/texts soon ate thru the credit. It was something like 15p per text and 35p per minute.
Had a Vodafone generic phone. It worked quite happily when I could afford to top it up. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"About 15. I was always out and about problem was it was a PAYG and phoning/texts soon ate thru the credit. It was something like 15p per text and 35p per minute.
Had a Vodafone generic phone. It worked quite happily when I could afford to top it up."
Thank god for contracts eh? |
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By *piderBunnyCouple
over a year ago
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17. I wasnt allowed a car without a mobile phone, and I argued until I was blue in the face with my dad about it.
Eventually I agreed, but told him he would always have to pay for it... 
Posh  |
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