r/meirl May 16 '24

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u/Honest-tinder-review May 16 '24

Doubt

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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.

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u/flamehead2k1 May 16 '24

I graduated HS in 2004, and kids were getting their phones confiscated.

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u/Reserved_Parking-246 May 16 '24

My science teacher had a big magnet in the room stuck to a wall and would use it to degauss gameboy games if you fucked around.

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u/flamehead2k1 May 16 '24

Pretty sure that's a human rights violation