doxieluvr
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Post by doxieluvr on May 16, 2013 9:02:58 GMT -5
I saw my first cell phone in 1992 on my friend's boat. It weighed about 3 pounds and cost $1200. It didn't fit in a purse. In 2001, I had a cell phone, but data plan wasn't available. We were stilll using dial up at the office, we got cable internet the next year. I had my first cell phone in 94. I was like 15. I doubt they cost anywhere close to $1200 bucks. I know my mom had one earlier, hers was in its own bag. By 2001, the employers I worked with had T1 lines for Internet. Just because you all were stuck in the dinosaur age, does not mean that the rest of the world was.
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swamp
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Post by swamp on May 16, 2013 9:08:49 GMT -5
The cell phone I saw in 1992 was a college friend whose neighbor was Ross Perot. We were at her house for spring break. Her father was the CFO of a very large stock brokerage/insurance firm.
Not exactly backwards people.
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Post by movingforward on May 16, 2013 9:12:00 GMT -5
I would rather be stuck in the dinosaur age than in la la land...
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on May 16, 2013 9:13:51 GMT -5
Doxie got special snowflake cellphones dropped from the sky (and the future)! It's a wonderful life, isn't it?
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swamp
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Post by swamp on May 16, 2013 9:15:15 GMT -5
and isn't it amazing that urban areas got hi speed internet before rural areas did? Hmmm, I never would have imagined that. <img alt=" " src="http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/rolleyes2.gif" width="19" height="19" text=" "><br><br>
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Post by movingforward on May 16, 2013 9:19:23 GMT -5
"it was not until the widespread availability of good quality 3G coverage in the mid-2000s (decade) that specialized devices appeared to access the mobile internet." www.ask.com/wiki/History_of_mobile_phonesI always knew doxie was special but I didn't know she had a time traveling delorean
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2013 9:21:15 GMT -5
Well, from what I can find in my exhaustive 10 minute internet search , phones didn't have web capability until 2002: from Wiki: In 2002 the first 3G networks on the rival CDMA2000 1xEV-DO technology were launched by SK Telecom and KTF in South Korea, and Monet in the USA.
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Rocky Mtn Saver
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on May 16, 2013 9:21:23 GMT -5
Oh, c'mon. Everyone knows that rural Maryland is the ahead-of-the-curve hub in the US!
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 16, 2013 9:25:40 GMT -5
I had an I-phone in 1992. Beat that. What? you can't prove I didn't.
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swamp
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Post by swamp on May 16, 2013 9:33:25 GMT -5
I had an I-phone in 1992. Beat that. What? you can't prove I didn't. I know you did. We used to text each other all the time.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on May 16, 2013 9:35:26 GMT -5
I held onto those pictures you sent me, just in case you run for public office or something.
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swamp
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Post by swamp on May 16, 2013 9:36:02 GMT -5
I held onto those pictures you sent me, just in case you run for public office or something.   'oh!!! [img]http://syonidv.hodginsmedia.com/vsmileys/shucks2.png[/img]
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Post by swasat on May 16, 2013 9:40:13 GMT -5
I saw my first cell phone in 1992 on my friend's boat. It weighed about 3 pounds and cost $1200. It didn't fit in a purse. In 2001, I had a cell phone, but data plan wasn't available. We were stilll using dial up at the office, we got cable internet the next year. I had my first cell phone in 94. I was like 15. I doubt they cost anywhere close to $1200 bucks. I know my mom had one earlier, hers was in its own bag. By 2001, the employers I worked with had T1 lines for Internet.
Just because you all were stuck in the dinosaur age, does not mean that the rest of the world was. Thats for ethernet. In other words, thats for landline cable. T1 lines =/ mobile network. Data streaming and 3G network wasn't even available to general public till 2003-2004. Yes, 3G network has been around for a while. But it wasn't cheap ot available to the masses in 2001. Unless your dad actually bought the 3G satellite? Stop sounding so ridiculous doxie. There are educated people on this forum, many of who also come from affluent families. You are not the only one who saw the good life, contrarary to what you think
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Post by swamp on May 16, 2013 9:42:43 GMT -5
I saw the good life, but only from the rich people I went to college with.
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Post by zibazinski on May 16, 2013 9:49:45 GMT -5
I find it amazing that any educated person would use that word, even at a small white liberal arts college. It just scream ignorance and low class, something no one should aspire to that attended this kind of school.
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Post by muttleynfelix on May 16, 2013 10:00:46 GMT -5
My parent's had bag phones/car phones. It was a godsend for my dad's business when they came out because it meant the survey crew could stay in the field and call if there was a question. That said, they were not cheap. They were very ungainly as well. The cords on them weren't very long and if you put the bag in an unobtrusive place, pulling the phone up to your ear to talk a pain and good luck if you were try to call a bag phone. Not to mention the cost of the service. Since I entered my parent's books into the computer in the mid-90s I'm sure I've seen how much it cost...too bad I can't remember, but in my Jr. High brain that was not important.
There was a huge difference in how people used cell phones on my college campus between 2000 and 2004. In 2000, the number of people walking along talking on their cell phones was significantly less than in 2004. In 2000, we didn't text. In 2004, it started becoming a big way of communicating.
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Post by swamp on May 16, 2013 10:03:08 GMT -5
I got a bag phone in 1996. It was expensive and I had to pay per call. And it was crappy coverage.
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Post by Rocky Mtn Saver on May 16, 2013 10:13:16 GMT -5
I remember my older sister had a car phone around that time. She was the only person I knew who had such a luxury, and she was doing pretty well in the insurance sales business at the time. I don't know how much it cost, but I remember it was literally tethered to her Lexus. If my mom borrowed her car, my mom would sometimes pretend to be talking on the phone so other drivers would think she was important!
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Post by zibazinski on May 16, 2013 10:14:19 GMT -5
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Post by zibazinski on May 16, 2013 10:15:27 GMT -5
I had one of those huge grey ones. Look like big old walkie talkies! But that sucker could wring deep into the dressing room bowels of some huge department store. No escaping it!
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Post by zibazinski on May 16, 2013 10:15:50 GMT -5
Very early nineties.
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Post by sheilaincali on May 16, 2013 10:54:36 GMT -5
My dad tells stories about them having to lug around this huge brick phone once because they were expecting an important call at the same time they had to be out at a jobsite.
He had a car phone- permanently mounted in his truck. The company paid for it and he would get calls all the time. I never thought much about it but decided one day I was sick of my brother listening to all of my phone conversations so I went out to the car and had a 45 minute phone call with my friend. Um, yeah I got grounded for that one- plus side is they did add a second "kids" line to the house. In addition to draining the battery, the damn phone conversations cost around $0.99 per minute back then. Oops.
Got my first cell phone in 2000. They had them when DS was born in 1998 but we didn't get one until 2000. No way did it have live streaming video options back then.
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Post by souldoubt on May 16, 2013 10:55:50 GMT -5
I saw my first cell phone in 1992 on my friend's boat. It weighed about 3 pounds and cost $1200. It didn't fit in a purse. In 2001, I had a cell phone, but data plan wasn't available. We were stilll using dial up at the office, we got cable internet the next year. I had my first cell phone in 94. I was like 15. I doubt they cost anywhere close to $1200 bucks. I know my mom had one earlier, hers was in its own bag. By 2001, the employers I worked with had T1 lines for Internet. Just because you all were stuck in the dinosaur age, does not mean that the rest of the world was. Except the discussion we were having was about how much use of the internet and cell phones has changed. Your parents were paying for you to have a cell phone when less than 1% of the world's population had one so that kind of makes you the odd one out and your experiences weren't "normal" for the times.
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Post by HoneyBBQ on May 16, 2013 13:06:32 GMT -5
Just because you all were stuck in the dinosaur age, does not mean that the rest of the world was.
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Post by toomuchreality on May 16, 2013 18:00:20 GMT -5
OH! You guys are just getting all "twisty"!
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Post by Peace Of Mind on May 16, 2013 18:15:20 GMT -5
LOL! Doxie really did grow up different! I always thought Fantasy Island was just a show. I'm not sure this qualifies but I was raised the only girl between 4 boys. 2 older (step) and 2 younger (blood or 1/2). The oldest step sisters were much older so I wasn't really raised much with them. They were my babysitters before our parents married. How weird is that?
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Post by toomuchreality on May 16, 2013 18:22:58 GMT -5
LOL! Doxie really did grow up different! I always thought Fantasy Island was just a show. I'm not sure this qualifies but I was raised the only girl between 4 boys. 2 older (step) and 2 younger (blood or 1/2). The oldest step sisters were much older so I wasn't really raised much with them. They were my babysitters before our parents married. How weird is that?
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