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thevortexmaster
My first phone plan was 12-1, 5-5, weekends and holidays free plus billing by the second. I latched onto that plan for like 7 years
DarkHollowDulcimers
This is an old telegraph pole.
criminently
And they had to be in your "zone"
DancesInBlunderwear
6pm in the UK
hjernedoed
We didn't even bother to call each other. We had to hunt each other down like animals.
billyjonas
Nothing like the satisfying electric ‘thud’ when you powered up one of these bad boys
Dragonfury5
I remember hearing all my friends say it. My parents refused to get me a cell phone though, so... shrug
ImBoredouttamyskull
Or getting a plan with shared texting if you were on the same provider. With 5 siblings, this saved me so much money back then.
byohzzrd
Roaming charges meant not using your phone at one end of town. Long distance being extra for land lines. Remembering all the phone numbers.
heller8790
Ya don’t know about struggle.When we got to act crazy just so we can quit a job and fake our identity and moved.And get arrested. The plot
heller8790
Was thicken like Salisbury steak greasy: but got damn was we like the 10 string QB in a team full of mismatch.
wiseandstupid
Carefully choosing your words as to not exceed the 160 characters limit in a message.
Xenocryst
Credit checks to have long distance...
notthatkaren
"Call me back before nine. It will ring in my parents room."
FiberOpticOatmeal
Hello dial tone, my old friend
Biolog4Viking
My grandmother would call our land line at 20.00 sharp, because it was cheaper after eight o’clock in the evening.
WorkerLurker
Yes I do! Oh wait I’m pushing 40… shit
RideTheStimutacs
I remember when land line phone calls to someone who lived a half hour drive away cost money. It was cheaper to just go visit them.
PacMan4Life
Our kids aren't going to understand the phrase "shit, can I borrow your charging cable?"
WorkingHard
Yes, please. We, as a species are all working toward such luxuries.
kaldaze
Battery packs that are wireless chargers. Hey, can i borrow your charging block? Kinda the same but less cables
Quaxx
I remember when a local call was 10c per connection, regardless of the duration. Just calling your friend/SO and watching TV together.
MarkHughes
I recall using the only phone in the house to call my girlfriend, who also had one phone that her father would answer. Always nervous.
Dragonfury5
Oh yes. You had to talk in the dining room or kitchen too, but at least it had that 30 foot coil cord so you could sit in a chair
Aimlockbelch
Take a dime with you in case you need to call me from the road.
Spartan04
In some ways I miss those days, or even the pre cell landline days, when no one expected you to be reachable all the time.
rubypet
I’d still get the miffed “why weren’t you home!?”
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Every time I feel that way I remind myself how much it would suck to be stranded on the side of an empty road in the cold with no cellphone.
Spartan04
True, I guess cellphones themselves aren’t the problem, I think it’s more smartphones and their always on internet connection.
retailmemedrone
I had 600 anytime minutes and free nights and weekends starting at 7 pm
magister333350
Worse. Living near a national border. You get surprise $600 phone bills every month or two, which you get to spend 4hrs calling CS so they+
magister333350
can unfuck your billing. While they try to say you totally live in another country, despite your billing address on file. For years only
magister333350
Verizon worked here, because they were the only ones who didnt fuck our bills up like that.
nofreelunch
Or when you said “Mr Watson, come here. I want you”.
FierceAndAdorable
1potsie
Or phoning collect to peoples homes you just visited to let them know you got home safely without costing money.
hungmung
Or collect calling my parents to pick me up from school after I was there late.
BonkyMcSignFace
It’s Bob Justaddababyitzaboy
Solonariwan
We would call and let it ring once then hang up to let our grandma know we made it home safe, she would do the same if she was visiting.
Scooby9
You had a payphone in your house?
hushpuppyextraordinaire
You could call collect from other phones too.
awkwardbeautiful
Pickmeupfromthemallplease
CoryBarker127001
“You have a collect call from ‘mompickmeup’. Do you accept the charges?”
alwaysupvoteprincessbride
wehadababyeetsaboy
thornofnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs
SuckAFuck
God I remember this commercial. I feel old.
alwaysupvoteprincessbride
i can do you one better: my kids are old enough to remember this commercial
SuckAFuck
Dad?
hushpuppyextraordinaire
Would you like to accept a collect call from” wehadababyeetsaboy” ?
swellguy18
https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs
Iamnotacreativeman
No.
swellguy18
"who was that, dear?" "Bob. They had a baby. It's a boy." "Oh!"
DosPadres
Who remembers “don’t call after 9pm, it’s impolite’
thatonemom
I remember if people called during dinner it was considered extremely rude and my parents didn’t pick up!
NotTinyPancakes
ours was after 4pm -_- we finished at 310 and bus got home after 5
PooPculture
Who remembers the 21st night of September?
ImScaredToGiveYouMyRealName
It's more like 8pm for me and no earlier than 9am and not between 11am-1pm and 4-6pm In fact, just don't call me... Ever
bubbag33k
Who remembers picking up the phone only to hear the screeching of the modem because someone else was using the internet.
NotTinyPancakes
20c texts were such a pain and people wonder why I don't text or call much, cause it costed a lot in my day and I wasn't allowed.
VodkaReindeer
I didn't have any friends to text, but mom did get upset when I sent texts to the vending machine at high school to pay for coke :|
NotTinyPancakes
Whoa fancy :o
GuestChrist
Kids of a certain age refuse to believe this. Along with texts costing a dime each. And long distance service. Or a 400 lb TV.
arthurvanhoudt
I remeber calling my uncle in the US (LA-CA) from NL in the end 70’s costed something like $5 a minute.
Cra3igbot
'Friends & Family Plans', 'Nights & Weekend Rates', Calling Card vending machines. Pre-programmed access shortcuts including pauses, . . .
natus
I remember going on vacation in Sweden (from Denmark, short trip) and texting a friend over the weekend. The bill was like 100€ lol.
SatanicSpirals
$0.15 a text on my first phone. $0.25 if you had no plan.
CakeShapedPie
The worst part is that text messages didn't even cost the phone company anything
CloudStrife668
Or having to wait till 9pm(after parents go to sleep) to play online video games because Dial-Up.
AndyTheAbsurd
Even though I lived through it, I still find the era of separate long distancing pricing hard to believe.
Soufange
I remeber the first time I almost dropped the tv on myself. I was 9 and thought I was gonna die. Learned how to lift that day.
IAmDrBanner
Can't use the internet if the phone line is being used.
iMcFly
When my sister was online I’d pick up the phone, do my best modem impression, and then wait a moment. It would corrupt the connection /1
iMcFly
enough for me to call someone or dial up the internet on my computer and be online before her computer registered it was offline. /2
CarlottaVonSprockett
In the famous horror movie “When a Stranger Calls” (2006), the main character is grounded bc her boyfriend used all the family cell /1
CarlottaVonSprockett
minutes by calling her nonstop during a fight. That’s also why she doesn’t have a cell phone to call for help. It’s so funny to me that /2
CarlottaVonSprockett
the action of the whole movie is driven by this weird thing that only existed for a few years and now we barely remember it at all! 3/3
Soufange
Bruh, or calls being dropped like a finger snap. I thought cell service had gotten way better until I went out of state and was almost lost-
Soufange
-in the middle of a huge city because my data kept losing connection and couldn't get google maps to work for shit. I walked 2 miles in a-
Lynkfox
Rotary phones. Rolling down windows. Dialup models. Downloads taking 2 days
Whackamoley
My car doesnt have power windows :(. Have to roll them down manually. I guess its older than I realized.
StandingOutsideABrokenPhoneBoothWithMoneyInMyHand
My 2016 Cobalt had roll down windows -.-
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
“Downloads taking 2 days” is not a distant memory.
itsthevoiceman
But it was for 1 song.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
I remember setting up late night scheduled jobs to download a few dozen photos of Cindy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer over ftp.
dlshark
Installing a game and it failing on the 5th disk
Loraxis
Imagine today's games on install cd's... CoD would be 280-ish
Loraxis
Over 58000 floppies
GuybrushUThreepwood
And then you lose floppy disk no 2, cause your cousin picked it up with his Hexen disks and took it back to Kent. Fucking Patrick