Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive?

Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• DBT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Who were you texting in 1999? Cell phones weren’t very common then.

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  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Probably me on my Nokia 5110.

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    • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I always wanted a Nokia - I know it was a cliche, but I was amazed at how indestructible they were. Even when they did actually break apart, you could just pick up the bits, clip them back together, and it would just work again - with no visible damage.

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      • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Obviously I updated my 5110 to a 3310 only a few years later!

        But to be honest I think my all time favorite will always stay my Ericsson T610/630… I kept that thing for over seven years. It rocked. Even had Bluetooth which I used to connect with my X10 home automation.

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  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I started university in 1999. Pretty much everyone had a mobile phone there. They were fairly new, granted, but they were pretty ubiquitous.

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  • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I was late getting a flip phone, but I did in 02. Everyone else I knew already had mobile devices.

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    • DBT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      By 02 texting & cellphones were somewhat common. In 1999 people were only really using cellphones to make calls and they were less common than pagers.

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      • Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It's funny. My general region uses text but really only phones if it's really important right this moment. We do have the phone conversations when it's too much to text though.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They were called pagers back then.

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  • SRo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bullshit

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    • DBT@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Please elaborate on how wrong you are. There were pay phones everywhere still in 99.

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• nave@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re in Russia. I don’t know anybody in the US (I assume you’re talking about) who pays for SMS.

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• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  American profit seeking at its finest

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