How’s this not on the list!
Are you even old enough to remember number 1?
Submitted 2 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 2 months ago
vane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
coaxil@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Was Gunna say, these pics are not old enough to give a correct answer for me.
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sometimes my dad would bring that last one home from his job if he was going on a business trip. I remember on one or two occasions he also came home with a Lincoln Town Car that I think was a company vehicle mostly driven by the company president and it had a car phone in it.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 2 months ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Those were tougher than Nokia’s.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
can_you_change_your_username@fedia.io 2 months ago
For a long time I thought that a rotary phone was one of those old wall mounted phones with the horn that you had to crank to make a call because all of those "things people born after 19XX don't recognize" lists had rotary phones on them. I was born after 19XX and basically everyone I knew had one of these so it couldn't be a rotary phone.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hah! Those horn phones were rare in antique stores when I was a child. :)
I remember my parents telling me we didn’t own the phone (pictured) in their bedroom. Turns out it was rented from AT&T. Young me was shocked at the notion. “But it’s in our house!”
At some point we upgraded to a push button version, of our own. Don’t think AT&T wanted the old one back. Got one out of the trash, sitting here now, wife wants me to toss it. “No! That and mom’s cursive typewriter stay!”
Rokin@leminal.space 2 months ago
I remember number 1 from when I played GTA Vice City.
Emi@ani.social 2 months ago
I remember 4 from GTA San Andreas .
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The one with a damn cord, you ageist bastard :P
Also wheres Nokia 3310
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
9.
But I had a sliding faceplate on it so I could be cool like neo.
Also it had Snake.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 months ago
You could also type in ringtones.
RBWells@lemmy.world 2 months ago
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Never in my house, but I had an elderly lady neighbor in elementary that I would play board games with my siblings that had one. I remember having to use it one afternoon and her teaching me. I don’t remember the lesson exactly, but it definitely didn’t last long.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
9, but my dad had a 4
Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
12 but my dad had a 1!
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
look at this dude with rich parents here
proudblond@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ouch I had a 4
synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 months ago
firewallfail@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not my first phone but moved back to it after my first smartphone because it was so solid. The only negatives about it were the proprietary connector (normal at the time) and sms not having a rolling delete.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used it for 9 years. When I finally changed it, everyone was already using smartphones for a while. I could navigate the menu and text entirely by touch, which was practical during classes :)
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Only ever saw them in movies originally. But I also grew up in Buttfuck, Egypt so that didn’t help.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
People joke, but Buttfuck, Egypt is a thriving metropolis of over 4 million now.
konalt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel so young. #18 is still before my time…
realitista@lemmus.org 2 months ago
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 2 months ago
#1 was my 3rd cell phone
realitista@lemmus.org 2 months ago
Nice. Drug dealer or stock trader?
Kylarean@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My first phone was #5
MrNesser@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mine was #6 it was a brick
sheridan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
9
dorumon@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
5 I remember liking dot matrix screen and browsing bit rushed WAP sites on it. Also being annoyed about having to activate the phone before I could use it.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Number 9, or something similar. It was a Bosch without keylock, so it called random people when it was in by school backpack (too big for pocket) as it had soft silicone buttons sticking out. You know, when calling was super expensive. My parents weren’t happy. Soon after I got a Nokia 3210 which had keylock and fitted in my pocket. And had snake.
jqubed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had a toy version of number 1. My first was number 4 or a similar model, a hand-me-down from my dad when I started driving and he upgraded to number 5. We actually found number 4 while clearing out the house when moving my parents a couple years ago. Not sure why they still had it; it had been years since anyone used it when they moved in almost 20 years earlier.
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Traveling technical sales
shiftymccool@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Gather 'round chillun and let grampy tell you about the times before cell phones
loomi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Gordon Gecko baby
First actually used was 7
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 months ago
Only one (#16) brick phone (non-touch, internal antenna, no moving parts)?
Doll_Tow_Jet-ski@fedia.io 2 months ago
I'm old enough to remember how in my third world country where I grew up people could buy plastic versions of the first model to pretend they were talking while walking on the street, because no one could actually afford a real one
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
When I was a kid you couldn’t choose your phone. Or I guess you could choose between wall mounted of tabletop. They were leased from the phone company when you paid for a phone line.
My grandmother kept her bakelite rotary phone until she couldn’t call her doctor without a touchtone.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh my, I recognise #5! My dad had one of those and I inherited it before I got the classic Nokia brick with Snake and Space Invaders (?).
marito@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Damn, are you me?
j4k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
My first phone was one of the Nokia bricks around the time of the 3310. When I was in middle school my old man carried a pager. He eventually had a phone around #5. My first was somewhere between 7-10.
With my first body shop, I ordered a used Sony Ericsson T800 from eBay that came from Europe. It was one of the first smartphones, pre android and with a resistive touch screen. I knew the utility was far more valuable. A bunch of family and friends swore up and down about their dumb flip phones and razors, and how I was crazy.
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Are you sure it was the T800? I can only find the P800 when googling.
I checks as I had never heard about the T800, but remembered my dad having a P800 for a few years
j4k3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Could be. Probably.
kayohtie@pawb.social 2 months ago
9, later 12 (didn’t get to keep 9)
Rooty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I briefly owned no3 as a replacement device, but started with no10 (or equivalent thereof)
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?
majari42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah, you’re forgetting it’s predecessor 3210. This thing was rock solid. Battery lasted for ages. And snake… snake… snaaaaake! Only lacked a vibrate function…
And 50% of the ppl in my town had one.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was looking for it as well!