Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.
Recently started using a LightPhone II when out of the house, and I found the article captured my current experience pretty well. It’s not so bad to be bored sometimes.
We used pagers to tell people to call us back on payphones, possibly using collect call service. Music was listened to on Sony Walkmans, maybe a boombox if you wanted to be obnoxious about it. Newspapers were sold at every street corner to provide reading material.
I wouldn’t say it was so different before smartphones. Everyone on the train was browsing the news using the copy of the local paper instead of a cell-phone connected to some news network.
Collect call from “wehadababy itsaboy”, do you accept?
I’m glad I’m not the only one with this burned permanently into my memory.
i sometimes quote some of my favorites to the young generation and they look at me like im insane. 10-10-220, only a buck for the first 5 minutes and just a quarter after that for any long distance phone call!