Hey all my middle age millenials remember when we used to type on flip phones and it took forever to write a sentence?
>>544563177No I didn't have enough money for a cellphone until the ones with keypads were already cheap
>>544563322wtf phones were like $100 back then and you could get them for free with a plan
>>544563177it was a vastly superior time, before everyone had constant internet access at their fingertips wherever they went
>>544563177People got pretty quick and could send texts in class without looking at their phone
>>544563177Na we use 2 short tex lik dis cuz it svd lots tym
>>544563177Remember the video games that came included on those phones lmao
I sincerely regret not killing myself back in high school.
My college roommate sent me a text and I walked over and slapped the shit out of him because it cost me 5 cents
>>544563177>Hey all my Middles Ages bro's ..
>>544563177do you mean telegraph?nokia 3310 was the ultimate and most functional communication deviceif all else failed you could've just throw it at someones head
>>544563177That was the best part, back in those days there was no rush for ANYTHING, no adult rushed, no one rushed. It was peaceful and slow akin to Godhood.
>>544563177I fucking hate on-screen keyboards. They were a step backwards for accuracy.
>>544563177better than fucking touch with autocorrect and batteries lasted like a week
Remember nextells? Remember people thought it was a good idea to have someone get direct access to you at any time on a loud speaker anyone could hear? Imagine if they existed today how many people would prank them screaming "NIGGER"
>>544563177t9 wasnt that bad
>>544564049>>544563989>>544563954>>544563853>>544563797gotta keep the goyim buying new shit
>>544563177I owned a beeper you fucking avocado toast motha fuckas You know what a pain in the ass it is to get a 911 beep from a fren and have to walk 3 miles to a pay phone only for him to ask if you have any weed which is what you wanted to ask him?
>>544563177It only took you forever if you were retarded
>>544563364Cellphones in 2001 were like 800 dollars.
>>544563364>bro just go back in time and get oneWhat a dogshit response.
>>544564295not even close .. you could have a Nokia for £150 bongbux
>>544564254I grew up with a rotary phone and black and white TV not because I am super old but because my parents were cheap as fuck
It was the best of times it was the worst of times
>>544563177I hated it even then. I was already used to typing on real keyboards so having that system to "type" or "text" was horrible. I preferred to just call someone, which is exactly what happened (and only on emergency because I'm admittedly cheap). I never liked the Razr either and never thought it looked "stylish".
>>544563177that's not how t9 or predictive worked, poser.
>>544564397>fucking faggots and their colored tvs
>>544564448>Leave the light's alone please, stop flashin' yer fookin lightshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2KCi11ZBCE&list=PLB--yRp2J0bEcAWvCvz3wpMpL-apkH2FE
>>544563322Zoomy.
>>544564493Markov Stringsinteresting story behind that functionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_algorithm
>>544563177I want to see a zoomer try and use a rotary telephone.
>>544563469Texting without looking is worth the lack of speed for sure. Incredibly useful.
>>544563534u r rt
>>544564380>you could have a Nokia for £150 bongbuxI'm starting to think you weren't actually around back then.
>>544563177I could literally type much faster on T9, and without looking. Smartphone touchscreens are a fucking joke and scam to grift modern retards. They don't work good, you're constantly mistyping letters, autocorrect and other bullshit fucks your shit up, and they lag because your phone constantly runs like a shitty PC overloaded with spam and malware. Fuck you braindead porn-addled retards for ruining phones.
>>544564830I am now convinced you are every bit as retarded as you think I am2001 advert
>>544563177We're not friends.
>>544563177Remember that time we came home from school and some asshole crashed 2 planes into buildings so we had a 20 year war, multiple recessions and a epidemic and now we have to learn different languages to interact with our neighbours
>>544563177it was fine. People don't have that much interesting shit to say. Everyone is way too noisy these days and need to learn to stfu. No I don't care about your gay retarded opinion about Elon musk. Shut the fuck up . Phones were enough to facilitate arranging plans to hang out. Chatting on the phone for hours was foid behavior.
>>544563177I was like a Morse Code operator with that shit. Could pump out long texts in no time without looking>*beep beep beep [pause]*>*beep [pause]*>*beep beep beep [pause]*>*beep beep [pause]*>*beep [pause]*
>>544563797I FUCKING HATE THIS FUCKING FAKE HISTORY THAT NOKIAS (ESPECIALLY 3310) WERE THESE INDESTRUCTIBLE BRICKS!!!!!Nokia made mostly cheap and frail phones. If you dropped 3310, it would literally shatters like a fucking cluster bomb on a third world village. They had poor batteries, they had shit features. The only reason everyone had them is because you could literally buy them for like 10$ for your kid and there was a huge aftermarket for various masks/skins.STOP LYING TO FUCKING ZOOMERS THAT NOKIAS WERE EVER GOOD!>STOP LYING TO FUCKING ZOOMERS THAT NOKIAS WERE EVER GOOD!STOP LYING TO FUCKING ZOOMERS THAT NOKIAS WERE EVER GOOD!every time I hear a fucking zoomer on my class say nokias were indestructible I throw a siemens m55 at them
>>544563322Blame your parents not us. Can't open your wallet then don't open your legs
>>544563177But can you write messages today without looking at your screen like back then?
>>544564985>requires a rate plan of 39.99 or greaterokay so you're just an idiot who doesn't know how cellphone contracts work and what the actual prices of the phones were
>>544564254>I had to walk 3 miles in the snow to the nearest pay phone while fighting gangs of MexicansOh shut the fuck there was a paypone on every intersection.
>>544564493Very early phones didn't have t9Like in 2000. Nokia 5110 didn't have it (I think)
>>544563954good news
you learned to think what you wanted to say and communicate in a concise way to get your point across in 140 characters.
>>544565256I accept your concessionnow fuck off
>>544565188This is slightly possible today with swipe predictive text. Fluent typing would take some time but you could memorize patterns for basic shit.
>>544563177only people who where 14 year old rich girls in like a 4 year time window around 2000-2007 remember that. And they where horrifyingly fast, paragraphs written blind on phones still in there pockets. If any of them maintained the skill and you find one ask them to show you, it's kind of fucked.
>>544565381>duH aGsepT yuh CoNsessuN
>>544565405Predictive text is a gimmick that works mostly for english language. Much like trying to ask ai to form a sentence in language other than english and see it shit itself in real time
>>544563787Is this what zoomers find funny?
>>544564985>dat picHoly shit britain was fucked even back in 2001.
>>544565381>price show for nokia 7160 requires a rate plan of $39.99 or greater thats $960 on a 2 year contract plus $149 upfront costs thats $1,109
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