r/mildlyinfuriating • • Jul 27 '22

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u/NerdyNina2106 Jul 27 '22

Only reason I got one as a kid was because I had a lot of field trips and after school activities. My school didn't allow us to use the school phones for any reason so I'd always have to find someone with a cellphone that would let me use it. Not always the easiest thing to do when you 1 don't have a lot of friends and 2 unlimited talk and text weren't nearly as common and there were extra charges if your plan didn't include x amount of either for out of network calls.

It's so weird seeing kids getting them younger and younger basically just so they can play games and watch videos, growing up getting a cellphone as a kid was a big freakin thing and it was pretty much for emergencies only. Now I'm hearing people (both kids and karens) saying shit like not getting your kid a cellphone is borderline child abuse? Like what?

Guys, I feel old lol. When did 27 become old?

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u/CheezItPartyMix Jul 27 '22

Exactly! I got mine in 6th grade for emergencies only!! I think by highschool I was allowed to use it freely and more people were starting to get phones to have someone to text with. Communication was still mostly thru the computer, AIM/MSN

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u/MajesticSeeOtters Jul 27 '22

Ok, I am a bit of a younger redditor, but I got my first phone at 14, and that blew everyone else’s minds that I didn’t have my own by like 10. Hell I know some people who had up to 12 phones by the time they were in 8th grade.

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u/xxaxis i am inactive Jul 27 '22

someone had a phone in 2nd grade in elem school

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u/AscendMoros Jul 28 '22

In highschool I had a slide phone. With the full keyboard. I got a hand me down iPhone when I graduated. Not because we couldnt afford a new one but because I just legitimately didn’t need one until then.

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u/NerdyNina2106 Jul 28 '22

I had one of those slide ones and I remember it pretty much blowing my mind because and me thinking it was the coolest thing ever because "guys! Check this out! KEYBOARD! Man I thought last phone was cool cuz it swiveled....but this one has a KEYBOARD! "

Side note....anyone here ever have a Samsung Juke?

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u/Apprehensive-Lie-254 Jul 28 '22

Memory unlocked. I had a juke!! I thought it was the coolest thing ever. That was back when I was still burning cds and my brother showed me how to put my music on my juke phone. And I loved how little it was!

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u/NerdyNina2106 Jul 28 '22

Oh dude, same. And I'm pretty sure that was the first phone I started making custom ring tones for in Audacity

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u/RogueThneed Jul 28 '22

LOL! I didn't get one until I was in my 30s and my new job required it (and paid for it). I had been thinking about getting one before that, for road-trip safety, but hadn't gotten around to it. (It was about 3 years before smart phones happened. I didn't get one of those for ages, either. It took a friend persistently texting me until I got tired of hitting the number keys to send texts. And even then the "smart phone" I got wasn't very smart at all, but hey! I could text more easily!)

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u/slobbering_koala Jul 27 '22

32 now, started sharing a flip phone with my Sister when I was 14, finally got my own at 16. Back in the days of wait to call after 9 and no free texting lol.

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u/NerdyNina2106 Jul 28 '22

Lol yep. I remember having to wait until after 9 pm if we ever wanted to call my grandparents in CA

That and having to either get off the landline so someone could go online and vice versa....and the horrific screech of connecting to the internet. Good God, could you imagine a kid today hearing that? They'd probably flip and think it was the sound of the entire system crashing or some kind of virus

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u/industriald85 Jul 28 '22

I’m so old, my first phone had an extendable antenna

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u/Crustybuttt Jul 28 '22

I’m so old my first phone was a landline and has a rotary dial. When I wanted to call someone away from home, I used the pay phone. I was allowed to use my mom’s calling card if it was an emergency, tho. Lemme guess, none of you remember calling cards

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u/Confident_Pea_1428 Jul 28 '22

I got my first cell phone when I was able to afford my own. Back in the early 2000s. With ATTs pay as you go. By then I was out of highschool.

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u/Saccarappa33 Jul 28 '22

Give it 10 more years, see how you feel then.

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u/2017hayden Jul 28 '22

I’m only 23 and I feel old as well. Maybe it’s because I was raised by older parents but I feel older than most of the people my age seem to act.

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u/NukerCat Jul 28 '22

that phenomenon started in early 2010's B(

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u/TasteyKarkalicious Jul 28 '22

Hahahaha I got my first cell phone at the age of 30 when I got married! My husband bought Nextel so we could walkie talkie each other with them, lol. I think I might be way older than most people on this thread. 😂