Remember When No One Had a Mobile/ Cell Phone...

You'd have to call their house and speak with parents and siblings who got to the phone first and after time got to know them, even if just a little...
When you arranged to meet someone, you met them where you arranged and at the time you arranged...
If you were late and couldn't find your friends, you went home...
You were mindful of the time when calling incase the ring would wake someone up...
If many people were going out for the night, you'd arrange all to meet at someone's house...

Now, you don't ever speak with their parents...
You can flake or tell them you're running late, simply because you have the option to...
You can turn up 2 hours late and walk into the bar they are all at...
You can call late or even send a text, don't matter what time of day...
Now, no one meets at houses before going out... its all meet up at X bar at X time.

Given that I rarely use or take my mobile with me anywhere, I still on the rare occaision find my self going home...

 

ahh, the time even before pagers? lol.

 

I remember being at the mall with friends when we were reallly young and calling collect on the payphone to someones mom. Then, when the operator asked for your name you would just say something like "Mom come pick me up" real fast and then hang up so you dont get charged. Haha those were the good days.

 

Yeah those were the days when everyone had to use payphones.

People used to have calling cards you got an account with a phone company and they give you a number and you make calls with the number at payphones and pay for the calls at the end of the month.
On the road hippies would hide out with binoculars by a yuppies payphones in a rich part of town. When rich yuppies would make a call the hippie with the binoculars would write down his calling card number he pushed in and then give it out to all the other hippies on the road. The calling card numbers were awesome you could call anywhere for free for about a month after about a month the yuppie would get his bill and the number wouldn't work anymore.

Now days everyone has cell phones I even see homeless winos talking on cell phones.

 

Yeah... remember those days when you got stranded along a long stretch of highway in a blizzard with your 4 year old in the back seat and the next house was 6 miles away? Good times, man. Good times.

 

Back in the days a window was the original VDU, then came TV, then PCs...whatever comes next i predict it'll be square shaped and we'll all stare at it. Ain't life great!

I've had two mobile phones since their invention and i've probably made about ... perhaps twenty or thirty calls with them. I hate the things. I sent mine for recycling a few weeks ago and never intend to own another.

 

At least today we have cell phones to call for an ambulance when we're on the side of the road after an accident caused by someone distracted by his cell phone.

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Before that, people were distracted by the radio, tapedeck and CD player. It's just one more thing to be irresponsible about. Just because people are dumbasses doesn't mean the machine is at fault.

 

People are more defensive about cell phones than they are about their religion. Just one off-color remark and people get upset.

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I remember a time before cell phones, but I most remember the period of time from the late 80’s to late 90’s when cell phones were super-sized (to say the least)


Hotwater

 

Haha! I don't even have a cell phone!

 

Being a thief isn't anything to be proud of. You should be ashamed, not nostalgic.

 

Radio Shack used to sell one in the 80s that had a base unit that was on the floor of the car. Big!

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Sorry Sitka, I guess I need to be a more self righteous like you…

I can’t believe anyone ever cheated AT&T..
Very bad..

Thank you teaching us to be better like you, and passing down your righteous wisdom.

 

I do wish that you could begin something with a couple of friends, and then be with those friends. But no. People will call, and you'll say, "Well I was just gonna hang with quack, and gobble tonight." Then they'll be like, "So I can't come, I'm their friend too, and it's only one person". Next Gobbles girlfriend will call and she'll want to come. Eventually you end up with a massive group of bored teenagers and it becomes too difficult to anything other than go sit in fast food parking lots and smoke cigarettes.

 

I'm pretty sure I've seen those
I thought it was pretty cool back in 1991 that my friend had the same cell phone featured in the movie New Jack City but still, by todays standards it was gigantic


Hotwater

 

I like that everyone has a cell phone - makes it so I don't have to worry about getting one =)

 

Not really upset. Just don't see the point in blaming the machine. In my opinion, if you don't want to be disturbed, or you don't want to be rude, you set your phone to silent and let the answering machine get it.

By the way, this

actually happened to me. My mom said that if we had had to walk one more mile, she doesn't know if I would have made it. I was hypothermic for the rest of the night and don't remember much of that day. If we had had a cell phone, we would have been able to call someone who could help us, but no. Cell phones were for rich people back then.

 

yea i dont have a cell phone and love it except this one time i stopped in this one rich city and gas stations didnt even have payphones i looked all over that town and there was none. i even heard they only had one bar the freaks.

 

Yeah I remember back when only the rich kids had cellphones. lol.