>zoomers don't know what it was like to type messages with a goddamn number pad
I do because I'm not a zoomerFuck off fakemillenial that was literal shit and the sole reason why I immediately switched to Blackberry as soon as I had the chance
>>102403080I was in highschool in 2012 and flip phones were still very popular. The oldest zoomers were born in 1997, which means a lot of them definitely used a phone with a number pad.
>>102403080Thankfully
>>102403080Dialpad typing was fucking cancer I would never want to come back to. I was so jealous of blackberry and high end Nokia phones back in the 00s.>>102403118>Zs are le 97 kidsStop perpetrating the US system bullshit, everyone knows zoomzooms are '96
>>102403080It was okay if you had the dictionary thingie.
>>102403228probably was cancer to you since your obese hotdog fingers are barely able to hold a phone without crushing it.
>>102403080I wasn't a cool kid so I didn't know that shit either how else did I end up fucking here was glad when txt tlk crap died
phones still have them
>>102403245it was still painfully slow.>>102403228>blackberryA physical keyboard, with actual hand shaped ergos was peak texting, and the ipad osk is a disaster for the human race unironically.osk has killed more people than alcohol. source: God told me in a dream
>>102403080Nobody should know what it was like to type messages with a goddamn number padThese were hell to operate and not even worth the effort. The only people who'd rather type a text message on a number pad than just call were teenagers texting each other while in class
>>102403080 yes, we do
nobody who had to use one of these ever enjoyed itso where is the nostalgia coming from?
>>102403567>nobody who had to use one of these ever enjoyed itI fucking enjoyed my phone in 2004. I hated typing in text tho
>>102403592that was the point ya peanut
>>102403080hello, gen z here, kys opeven if what you said was true, there's nothing tangible to it
>>102403567>nobody who had to use one of these ever enjoyed itdo you enjoy using your house keys? get a smile on your face when you put on a pair of socks? who the FUCK "enjoys" a basic function of operation of a PHONE? seems like you were just fucking shit at it or weren't around when these phones were commonplace. everyone was used to it. messages could be typed out very fast if you weren't a fucking cripple or had hands the size of dinner plates.
>>102403603The nostalgia comes from the fact that I enjoyed phones in 2004. Even if typing sucked, the whole thing was fun and new.
>>102403645calm down ma'am
>>102403080and you don't know what it was like before cellphones, or before internet was widely used. feel special yet?
>>102403645i enjoy using my keyboard and touch interface because it's convenient and gets out of my way
>>102403656i was first introduced to mobile phones in 1992/93 when only rich motherfuckers, drug dealers and business people had them. the poor people had pagers. when i got my first phone in 1998 i couldn't afford to do much with it except receive calls and only use it when i really needed to, but damn it was cool.
Typing was awesome because you didn't even need to look at your phone to write a fully legible message. Try that with touchscreens.
>>102403709i hate using touchscreen so much that it's absolutely fucking unreal. it felt like a downgrade when i first got first version of iphone. typing became slower for me.
>>102403567The nostalgia is for a time with less biomass, possibly only perceived as such because it was far less vocal. You will never understand why having to put in more effort was objectively good as it forced you to make whatever you wrote more worth it. Couple that with the character count limitation and you had to also be creative. None of this fazes you because you are subhuman. You and your kind exist solely to mindlessly spew and consume worthless informational diarrhea, pure mental fecal matter in various forms. AI slop threads, desktop screenshot, loli tranime, thinkpad consoomerism, game engine/programming language/messaging apps debate. You will never understand the concept of gatekeeping because you are fundamentally inferior and know you will be filtered. You are so utterly idiotic you cannot even begin to fathom how idiotic you are.
>>102403762>you will never understand blah blah blahma'am you need to calm down
>as it forced you to make whatever you wrote more worth it
>>102403080i used one for all of middle school so yes i do (18 now)
>>102403253Projecting much? I was an elementary school kid and skinny as fuck.>>102403299I want so bad for companies to start making a variant of their high end models with physical keyboards again. I don't care if bottom sliding like the BB Priv or side sliding like the Milestone.
>>102403080I still remember.
>>102403080It was annoying. Surely, you get used to them but there's a reason why we have tactile screens now.t. 99' Anon
>>102403080>H>Wait>i>Wait>h...ow... a...re... ...y...o...u... d...o...ingDon't miss this shit, at all
>>102403378>ifunny appkek
>>102403080but I do?
>>102403567I still use mine from 2006I do not particularly enjoy it and wish people would use plaintext email instead
>>102406174>Waityou can use the right-arrow button to immediately get to type iyou do not have to wait for it to let go of the current character
actually when I was way younger I watched my older cousin play video games and he was driving around with one hand on a console and texting with the other handhe looked really cool doing it
>>102403080my classmate could send sms without looking at keyboard.
>>102403080nah my first phone had a numpad t.2000 baby
>>102403567You can text one handed, and in the age of physical keypads, with tactile feedback.
>>102403080I was faster with T9 than touch qwerty
>>102403111Based BB chad and checked
>>102403709this. i wasn't particularly fast, but i know some girls typed at lightning speed on these things, and they could even do it in class covertly>>102408147>T9now that was shit, a big one
I liked them because I could write one handed without even looking at the thing.But physical keyboards were the shit, I miss the corby.FUCK touchscreens and buttonless.
for a moment the keyboard ascended, then faded to obscurity, I've not even seen anyone use swiftkey in ages
>>102403080it was unironically superior to fucking touch-typing
