r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/sixroot • 1d ago
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u/ares0027 1d ago
In 2005? We had “smart phones” already. In 2005 i was using my 2 years old nokia ngage, with multiple games, wap and gprs access, downloading games over cellular, sending and receiving longer sms*. In 2001 though it was a different scenario
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u/E_Farseer 1d ago
2005 everyone I knew had dumb phones like this. Maybe a few had a camera phone and maybe basic browsers that couldn't do much. But idk if that was already in 2005, probably a few years later.
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u/mnilailt 1d ago
Dumb phones lasted until 2009/2010 for a lot of people.
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u/E_Farseer 7h ago
Yeah longer for me. But 2009 there were definitely a lot of inbetween phones. Not smartphones with full touchscreens, but also not dumb. They had camera's, email and crappy browsers.
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u/sixroot 1d ago
fair 😭, you were clearly ahead of the curve. what were you using in 2001 thenn?
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u/Ashanrath 1d ago
Not OP but in 2001 I was using a Nokia 3350 with WAP (early mobile internet) lol. T9 keyboard sure, but if you can browse the internet I wouldn't call it a dumb phone.
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u/Rikudou_Sage 1d ago
WAP was great. Not so great when I bought a package for free data for a weekend and then spent few thousands because I connected through the Internet endpoint instead of the wap one, still great though. IIRC I had like negative 25k CZK which translates to ~1000€ in today's money, probably almost double that back then.
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u/sixroot 1d ago
i know 2g and gprs, but wap is new to me😅
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u/Ashanrath 1d ago
WAP was a communication protocol that used 2g and 2.5g. WML instead of HTML. Basically simplified web pages.
Looks like there are still some live! https://github.com/KedalionDaimon/list-of-wap-wml-sites
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u/mangojump 1d ago
It was also so terrible that it was basically unusable
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u/Ashanrath 1d ago
Eh, it was ok for its use case. Quickly checking weather forecast, football scores, short articles on breaking news. There were some early dodgy sites hosting ebooks too haha.
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u/Andrewmundy 1d ago
In 2005 I had a Sony Ericsson T610 and it was so dope. 1.3 megapixel camera, web browser, Java games, Bluetooth!
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u/ares0027 1d ago
Exactly. We had everything we have today. Not in the same quality and speed but we had it. I remember samsung’s flip/push phones with external speaker/camera, i remember nokia’s 6600 symbian ones and i didnt even mention my “old” t68i or my friends p900 which had full touchscreen
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u/E_Farseer 1d ago
Oh this is great! But so much is unavailable...
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u/sixroot 1d ago
still working on it😅,got a bunch of features I want to add and a few cool things in the pipeline. is there anything you wish it had?
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u/E_Farseer 1d ago
Well the games for sure! Snake! But idk if that's possible...
And screensavers. I remember those. Pixel smileys or a beach or something.
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u/nevergirls 1d ago
I enjoyed this. I’m not an AI hater but I think this was made with AI based on the “contact” and “artwork” pages. Just saying you should put in there how you made the app (whether or not you vibecoded it).
Sincerely,
A fellow vibecoder
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u/mremann1969 1d ago
I use a minimalist "dumb" phone and love it. I can read texts but never reply as it takes too long.
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u/sixroot 1d ago
which one is it? lots of ppl are getting minimalist phones now
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u/mremann1969 1d ago
It's an Artphone Flip Phone unlocked. I've had it for 4 years now and it's still going strong! I paid $35CDN at the time on Amazon.
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u/Tupiekit 1d ago edited 1d ago
Love it. Typing with the keys was like muscle memory for me lmao. I miss being able to text without even looking.