Comment on Those were the days

• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are we talking about the button phones? Did they have different audio formats cuz their speakers were crappy or something (hence, no use playing high resolution audio)? Did the custom ringtones then sound bad as well?

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  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    button phones

    Oh god this is the phrase that makes every bone in my body cry out in old.

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    • snf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sssssshhh, there there, it’s ok. They’re feature phones

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  • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Old dumb phones could not play arbitrary audio… Well, aside from phone calls of course. Ringtones were a series of… Tones! Kinda like a midi file, ever heard of that?

    Extra fun fact, the original iPhone only had THE iphone ringtone, and you could not change it.

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    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Old dumb phones could not play arbitrary audio… Well, aside from phone calls of course. Ringtones were a series of… Tones! Kinda like a midi file, ever heard of that?

      Oh, was this because of limited processing power / slow secondary storage read speeds?

      Extra fun fact, the original iPhone only had THE iphone ringtone, and you could not change it

      NO WAY… Oof that must’ve been so annoying, no? Ur phone being a waking advertisement to everyone around you?

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      • Damage@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, was this because of limited processing power / slow secondary storage read speeds?

        All of that and more. They didn’t have mass memory, so you had a maximum number of contacts, a maximum number of SMS, a maximum number of ringtones… but you couldn’t delete ringtones to make room for SMSses or such. They were a completely different tech.

        NO WAY… Oof that must’ve been so annoying, no? Ur phone being a waking advertisement to everyone around you?

        They loved it. Also it couldn’t share media (messaging apps didn’t exist yet and it didn’t support MMS) and was GSM only, so to actually do anything smart it had to be connected to WiFi.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, was this because of limited processing power / slow secondary storage read speeds?

        That and we hadn’t settled on standards nearly to the degree we have now. Much like charging cables it was the wild West for some shit out there. Also, many phones actually did support MIDI, but most normal users didn’t know what to do with it lol

        Oof that must’ve been so annoying, no? Ur phone being a waking advertisement to everyone around you?

        Back then it was status. “Look at me, I have an IPHOOOOONEEEEE”

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  • pacmondo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Low quality speakers and storage was far more expensive then than it is now

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the button phones

    Reee kids get out

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• BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still have some 3gp/3gpp videos recorded on my old slide. What a pain. And I think depending on whether your phone was gsm/CDMA would affect whether it recorded to .3gp or .3g2.

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