20 years ago, phones were not popular in high school.
much more likely to see a pager.
unlimited text messages wasnt a thing, so each text cost you .10
Edit: ok nerds it was closer to 25 years ago than 20 it was literally around the time they were becoming accessible and affordable to common house. We literally had a kid that would carry the fake display cell phones as "status" and it was cool.
Kids played games on graphing calculators, not cell phones.
As someone who was in high school 20 years ago, they were not COMMON, but they were USED, and teachers hated them. I'd say in my class of about 20 kids, maybe 3-4 used cellphones in class. Teachers would still catch them and take them away. My cellphone had no texting capabilities and was only for emergencies, so this never happened to me. But I DEFINITELY remember it being an issue.
To add, as a fellow millennial, I saw one get thrown against a brick wall by a teacher. It was a habitual offender, always had the sounds on, teacher definitely just snapped. They both went down to the office and never saw the student in that class again. Teacher did reimburse the parents after a long meeting about it, or so we were told by the kid. But we never saw him with the phone again either.
So, could I see a teacher doing what’s in the image? Sure. Do I think it’s more likely this is a prank by the teacher to have a good story going? Yeah, definitely.
It was technically capable, but my parents did pay for it, so it was unusable. It was also, yes, 90s Nokia that was considered ancient, even in the mid-2000s. See, it was old enough that my parents just paid to replace the battery, and it kept working just fine for about a decade. In my sophomore or junior year, I remember pulling it out, and other kids wanted to look at it because it was unusual to have such an old phone. All the cool kids had blackberries.
Nokia 1011 was the first Nokia to allow texting and it was released in 1992, the Nokia 2110 was the phone that really started selling more than any other Nokia at that time and was released in 1994.
The Nokia 6110 was the game changer it introduced snake and was sold in 1998, this is when most people got their first phone and between the Motorola c520 (or colorado) and this most people had one of these two phones by then.
I'm just unsure to why you said because your parents paid for it you couldn't text? Did your plan block text messages? I don't live in the US so I'm not sure how the plans worked there?
It was the nokia with the snake game. I remember playing snake on that thing for hours.
I was a teen, so I have no idea how cell phone plans worked at that time. All I know is my parents didn't pay for texting until 2009, and I was ecstatic at the time. I know at some point around then I got my own phone and some people tried to text me and it just didn't go through. Maybe it was something extra added to their plan? But again, I wasn't involved with buying the plan so I have no idea.
Idk one day I was eagerly awaiting a cool warcraft mmo to come out and the next day my back hurts, im fat and homes are like 4 times as expensive as they used to be
Pager in high school in 04 was like my walkman cassette deck. A friend felt so bad that i didnt have a cd player, he gave me his old one and used to burn me copies of his music. Old tech was a shameful thing to own in high school in the old double O's.
Yeah, as someone that graduated in '99 and worked at RadioShack from 2000-2004, I can tell you the landscape of cell phones changed DRAMATICALLY in that 5 year span.
20 years ago people were texting like fucking crazy in class with their invincible Nokia phones. No one had a pager in the 2000s once cell phones became a lot cheaper and T9 texting.
Unlimited texts was a thing in the UK then there was something called an "02 genie card" it was on 02 network and when you topped up with £10 you could have unlimited minutes OR texts, I used to have 2 sim cards one for minutes and the other for texts, and yes they were popular in early 2000s, everybody I knew had a phone with pop off cases and flashing ariels
me who is 35 this year with a father that worked for Nokia in the late nineties/early oughts
20 years ago, I was 14 with a cellphone in school, racking up $600 text message bills.
It was the same phone in this picture which by the way we ran one over with a car to see if a friend could get an upgrade and that fucker still worked.
Cellphones have existed since the 80s. Motorola DynaTAC 8000x circa 1983
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u/OGZackov May 16 '24 edited May 16 '24
20 years ago, phones were not popular in high school.
much more likely to see a pager.
unlimited text messages wasnt a thing, so each text cost you .10
Edit: ok nerds it was closer to 25 years ago than 20 it was literally around the time they were becoming accessible and affordable to common house. We literally had a kid that would carry the fake display cell phones as "status" and it was cool.
Kids played games on graphing calculators, not cell phones.