My ringtone was a funky chiptune version of O Green World by Gorillaz.
These days I don’t even want a ringtone on my phone.
Don't call before 9, my minutes aren't free
Submitted 7 months ago by spicytuna62@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 months ago
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Back in that day, before everything had an app, most notifications were important
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And before 99% of the calls and texts you receive were spam, political campaigns inevitably addressing you by the wrong name with heartfelt pleas for money, IRS scams, “Bob” from Microsoft technical support, Your Car’s Extended Warranty, AI generated robocalls telling you not to vite, or someone’s hysterical babymomma who refuses to understand that whoever she’s looking for might have had this number in 2007, but they don’t have it anymore.
UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I still have my phone set that way. I turn off all notifications that aren’t messages. Though, I guess now it all goes through my watch first.
shneancy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
i only unmute when i’m expecting an important call (like the pizza man at my door)
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Our pizza man doesn’t call or ring the doorbell. He sends a text and if you’re not down there in like 15 seconds he is GONE
kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I can get away from unmuting thanks to my Mi Band 😬
FiniteLooper@lemm.ee 7 months ago
How much you spending on custom vibration patterns?
Donkter@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I would throw a dollar at shave and a haircut for texts.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Mine’s always on silent mode too.
Patches@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Ay but there are still notification chimes
AquaTofana@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Man, OPs caption unlocked a core memory I have of calling my high school boyfriend at 858 pm, and talking on the phone with him for about 2.5 hours before he got notified that he was under 10 mins left for the month.
We had thought he was only going to lose 2 of his minutes 😭.
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I remember when they finally came out with the free unlimited minute plans.
Mind=blown
woodenskewer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah but at first it was only Cingular to Cingular or Verizon to Verizon “free unlimited”
AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How about Alltel’s “Fave 5”?
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I stayed with Sprint through years of them being the shittiest in my area because I was grandfathered into free nights starting at 5pm. Just taking non-stop at 6pm like a baller.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh yeah those were the days!
Now you’ve gotta pay me a hecking salary for me to use the damn TELEPHONE function. Ew
JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
She has a baby by macaulay culkin now.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I had the hots for her back in the day.
Didn’t know they had kids though, good for them!
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
2 of em
JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Oh shit, a lil family pack.
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Baby by Macaulay Culkin sounds like a perfume brand.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh. Is that who that is? I thought it was just some random token Asian girl.
moon@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
Rich girl in sweet life of Zack and Cody
If you weren’t a kid in that age, it was a very popular Disney tv show
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 7 months ago
i bought akon - lonely from a TV ad when i was a young teenager for my polyphonic nokia.
what i didnt realise was it signed me up to a weekly subscription and it racked up over £100 before my dad found out.
Had to abandon that number and get a new sim
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Yeah I remember those subscription scams. Real scummy stuff
gerbler@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The massive block of fine print at the bottom of the screen. Things my preteen self would not take notice of.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think their only recourse was that there was the asterisk with the subscription verbage in really tiny fine print that was only visible if you had an 80" projector TV
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Never bought a ring tone. I just stuck with the default Canon in D.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
not to brag but tabbed out Tool’s Forty Six & 2 as my programmable ring tone myself
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 months ago
A story the descendants will need to have strong search skills to understand.
One day, Merv Griffin was going through his snail mail and found a hefty check to him from a company he’d never heard of.
He used the intercom to summon his assistant. They explained to him that his people had licensed the ’ Final Jeopardy’ music to be a ring tone.
Then they had to explain to Merv what a ring tone was.
Orbituary@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I want to believe this but I don’t want to search for it.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 months ago
You can believe me. No body ever lies on the interwebs.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t forget ringback tones so u could force anyone who called to listen to a scratchy version of a shitty song any time they called. My sister still had hers til like 2015 or something.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Let’s not forget, you could also compose your own ringtones on those 😁. Well, that’s what I did 😂.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 7 months ago
A friend of mine had self-composed Darude - Sandstorm as his ringtone. Amazing shit
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You still can if you want to. My phone uses an MP3 for ringtone that I selected. It’s music that I wrote and recorded in my home studio even
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Meeh, it’s just not the same 😂. I miss the quirky score notation on those ancient things 😂.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I used to buy the songs that would play as my phone ringing. Like I’m not sure how to say it but when you called me you were forced to listen to a shitty song I liked instead of hearing the riiing riiing. Or when I called my weed guy instead of hearing the riiing or was 36 Mafia "where is the bud, where is the bud playing.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
A friend of mine still has fucking Mozart playing when you call him.
zip@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I believe they were called ringback tones. Those were neat.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 7 months ago
The good ol days of asking Jeeves to find you tabs/sheet music.
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Exactly! 😂
Or you just lay in bed at night and just try to properly edit the score notation to a song you really like, but it’s kinda niche, still all your friends know it, and then brag about it when you meet up “yo, check out my ringtone 😏” 😂.
Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m sorry but paying for a rington was never cool. And it’s not a generational thing, just gullibility
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
Just wait till you find out people also used to pay for backgrounds and emoji. Lol. Scams and viruses, the lot of them.
limelight79@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Don’t forget ringback tones.
moon@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
I used to pay for those sweet flaming mouse cursor gifs too. Except I didn’t, my parent’s unexpectedly did lol
jaybone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
When I was young I would edit my own mp3 to make ringtones and figure out how to transfer them to my phone.
Now I’m old and I work and I don’t have time, so I’d rather just pay for it.
Of course I don’t even do that because I don’t give a shit and just keep the default one.
stinerman@midwest.social 7 months ago
If someone texted me, the reply was “these cost me $0.25, so i’ll talk to you on AIM when I get home”
ShadowRam@fedia.io 7 months ago
Ahh yes.. the Xennial Generation.
spicytuna62@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I think that’s a good name for kids born between 1980 and 1995. We mostly grew up with NO Internet at all but were pretty immersed in it by the end of high school. I’m young enough to have had both floppy disks and flash drives in my youth. Once my classmates and I got flash drives, that’s how we shared music between each other after we got Chris to download what we wanted from Limewire lol
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I mean that pretty much covers the entire millennial generation…
r00ty@kbin.life 7 months ago
Xennial refers to people born from somewhere in the mid 70s to 1980. It's a narrow subset of Gen X made up of those that were growing up during the information revolution.
I would say it might apply to someone in the very early 80s. But anyone born in 1995 definitely had their formative years with internet access and are firmly millennials.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To me, the earliest Millennials were the class of 2000. It always felt like there was extra pressure on us because we were going to be the first of a new millennium.
The divide was especially stark in my high school. The class of 99 - the last of Gen X - were kicked out of every pep rally and assembly for being disruptive, while the other classes were all well behaved and didn’t really understand why they were acting this way.
ArumiOrnaught@kbin.social 7 months ago
I had to drive over to a different truck shop for a flash drive this year.
On my car I use a flash drive to crack the software.
In my shops library they have a few floppies.
:')
r00ty@kbin.life 7 months ago
Excuse me, I downloaded my ringtones, and had the funky cables to upload ringtones to my Nokias thank you very much!
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Hell yeah brother.
My Motorola SLVR would blast “oh my god that’s the funky shit” from the Prodigy - Funky Shit sample of the beastie boys.
fury@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My ringtone has been the same one for the last 15 years, Cowbell Rock. I paid for it twice, once when Ringtone Feeder was a thing, and then again from iTunes. Worth it. Best ringtone ever. Would buy again if I could.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I just go with a telephone ringing. I always have. Why not have my phone make the same sound phones made for over a century? Nothing wrong with it as-is.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 7 months ago
I remember in the era of 3310, there would be a spreadsheet for you to compose those pop song tune in a teen magazine. Simpler time.
Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I remember finding a website with fairly rough versions of popular melodies were transcribed for Nokia ringtone format. Pretty sure I went for some Metallica. Not sure if it was before or after we got ISDN, but I’m fairly sure I already had a hotmail address.
protozoan_ninja@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Anyone remember paying ten cents or honestly usually more per text until someone did out the numbers and we all realized we were paying more to text than NASA pays to beam data back from the goddamn ISS? And only then did unlimited texting become a thing?
Jon_Servo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Best part was that SMS was specifically designed to use the current infrastructure at the time without inducing any real demand on it. It didn’t cost the companies much of anything to implement it.
sfxrlz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yup that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up…
ComradeR@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I bought 2 ringtones on my Nokia 2112:
Linkin Park - Numb
t.A.T.u - All About Us
It was funny to listen to them over and over!
noxy@yiffit.net 7 months ago
I bought at least one and possibly two Rob Zombie ringtones on a Cingular flip phone. Wasn’t worth it then as shit isn’t worth it now.
But I do need to go listen to some classic (Rob|White) Zombie now
Noodle07@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I never cared much about my ringtone but I got used to “dream it possible” so now I keep using it 🤷
Raglesnarf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
my first purchased ringtone was hips don’t lie by Shakira
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To be fair, also born at the right time to have a mobile phone as a convenience that allowed you to stay in touch as you went places. As opposed to a voluntary shackle that keeps you indoors doom scrolling social media.
Sidyctism@feddit.de 7 months ago
I dont doomscroll at home! I do it in public transport…
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 7 months ago
she cute
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I spent my money on a yak bak
JCreazy@midwest.social 7 months ago
I was the guy that used audacity to make ringtones and then share them with as many people as possible. This waa of course once phones could play actual music as fingtones.
KrankyKong@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I used to record the song using my cell phones microphone to ensure it was as low quality a possible.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Blast from the past moment. Took me 4 episodes of yugioh to be able to properly record the intro song so I could listen to it whenever I wanted. Took me 3 for Pokémon.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They could. As long as they were midi files.
Bach37strad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I used to be able to play a song or yt video and use an aux cable to go from the pc’s headphone out, right back into the pc’s mic in, which audacity recognized as a mic, so you could easily record anything playing in original quality.