Comment on This was a big deal. You could play a game on your cell phone

jim3692@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• TheEntity@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What are you talking about? Ringtones were the original paid cosmetics!

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  • Thrife@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ringtones and these Logo banners!

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    • dumbass@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I remember there was a shitty website where you could buy credits to spend on banners and ringtones, but their website was utter trash that you could modify it and get them for free, so just got them all to fuck around with.

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Millennial WAP

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  • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Could you get ringtones on Nokia 3210/3310 ?

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    • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes. You could pay some geek to type it in during recess.

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      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or have them (or operator logos, which were effectively wallpapers) sent over RTTTL texts. With WAP, actual wallpapers, screensavers, polyphonic ringtones, games etc. became available too.

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      • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, I had forgotten about about that feature. I was like 4yo back then.

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Excellent point about ads. Yes I still remember when every internet site DID NOT have advertising

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  • jim3692@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Back then, websites didn’t need to show ads. They just distributed adware. Those days are long gone…

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  • icelimit@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There was a time when websites had hours.

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• CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you want free games with minimal functionality there is always f-droid.

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually, Nokia’s first Java phone, 3410 (the one on the right except with a different key layout) featured a store with downloadable games, ringtones, screensavers, picture messages etc. Czech provider Eurotel distributed the first 3D Java game Munkiki’s Castles as a loss leader, and Space Impact had downloadable missions.

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  • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I used to work for a J2ME mobile games developer. Fun times but it was wild west. They didn’t properly standardize the API so each mobile phone had its own glitches, incompatibilities and extra APIs and the emulatos were not very accurate either. That meant we basically had to have pretty much all phones there to test the games.

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ad break

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