• Lemmist@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    When I was a kid we didn’t need nor wanted “mobile phones”. What for? For parents always be able to shout “Go home!”?

  • kbal@fedia.io
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    1 month ago

    Those things were great. You could make a phone call from almost anywhere without having to carry around a radio tracking device all the time.

  • irish_link@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Check in every few hours. Call collect with quick allgoodgoingtoJoes. Then parents decline the collect call.

    Reminds me of the commercial, “bobhadababyitsaboy”

  • Jerb322@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Beepers were all the rage when I was in high school. Beeper goes off, look at the number and decide if you want to call it back. Different codes for different friends. Then scramble to find a payphone if you wanted to call someone back.

  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    in my early childhood phones (not smart) where so common that i could ask strangers in the train: can i please call my mom?
    And they gave it to me because i was a child

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    1 month ago

    Around here we still have them, and they provide free wifi. My home is almost close enough to pick up the signal from one in the main street.