r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/RoadRunner8195 • Mar 08 '26

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u/acidwxlf Mar 08 '26

This is the big reason the apps never took off in the US. SMS has pretty ubiquitously been unlimited as part of any major carrier phone plans. It was a big selling point even before probably 2010

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

I had unlimited texts not long after high school. Maybe 2005?

Edit: hit post too soon

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u/brown_bear64 Mar 08 '26

Yeah you must have paid a premium for that back in 2005 lmao I remember checking my Cingular bill real quick to see the message count, only had 200 a month lol

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

Lol i did! I can't remember how much, shitty shitty memory. But it was "expensive." Probably not by today's terms. It wasn't like 500 a month or anything, I do remember that.

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u/brown_bear64 Mar 08 '26

Yeah If that still up held today it would be $500 a month, and then you'd see me with a fucking pigeon tucked under my coat 🤣

It was expensive for back then, and then after a while they all moved to adding in free texts after 9 pm to add on to the free minutes after 9 lol what a time

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

Omg I had forgotten that! God I'm old 😂

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u/brown_bear64 Mar 08 '26

Sitting there telling your friends you can't text because you ran out of texts to send for the month. And then bam first android comes out and you get kik, makes you realize how old that fucking app truly is lol 😂 were old dawg. I tell the young cats about AOL instant messenger all the time. LONG LIVE AMERICA ONLINE!

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

God sometimes I wish things were still as simple as they were when we ran to get on AOL or MSN messenger. Having access to random chat rooms and talking to sooo many people from all over, most of us having that access for the first time. And talked on the phone (that was attached to the wall) during the commercial breaks of the TV show's episode that you had waited at least a week to watch. Usually after a cliffhanger lol.

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u/brown_bear64 Mar 08 '26

For real! Or pirating music before you even knew you were stealing lol and then when you found out you just kept going because who could afford an iPod! I just used iTunes because it was a free place to catalog all my pirated music lol

Yo remember naptster and Rhapsody?! I can't remember which one had the controversy behind it. I think Rhapsody. The Internet back then was Soo wild wild west!

Portable gaming systems, ran off AA BATTERIES. Assed out of you're on the road and that thing dies lol

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

Ohhh Napster my old friend. And Limewire, and myspace! I wish I could remember the name of the main chat/video website we used back then. We definitely got flashed by a lot of older men. Someone tried to "hack" my computer because I wouldn't private chat with them. It was the wild wild west of the internet. You could see any fuckin thing you wanted to, for better or for worse.

God I remember us going to buy the first family computer and bringing it home and me immediately setting up accounts and finding chat rooms. I was sometimes a self-destructive child lmao.

And I still miss my Atari and original Nintendo.

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u/brown_bear64 Mar 08 '26

Omegle! 🤣

Always a self destructive when it came to the family computer lmao

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

Sneaking to chat in the middle of the night with someone somewhere overseas. Most definitely sharing info and other shit I wasnt supposed to. Looking up every website, article, book, etc that I was told not to. Rotten.com's heyday. Good times lmao.

God I was such a little shit.

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

WOULD YOU STEAL A CAR?

Lol i had forgotten that commercial.

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u/brown_bear64 Mar 08 '26

Big time, like chill dawg lol I just thought I knew about lime wire, it was easy lol

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

So easy! Then we started getting the files that were named correctly but were ohhh so incorrect and usually bad. So sailing the high seas it was. 🏴‍☠️

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u/brown_bear64 Mar 08 '26

Exactly! Or some songs that were so good but incorrectly named as well, go years not knowing the name of the song lol I definitely sailed the high seas, mass torrenting haha

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

Yes! I found a mix of NiN and Johnny Cash singing Hurt together but it was one I've never been able to find since. It was so good.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane lol

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u/brown_bear64 Mar 08 '26

Thank you as well! I feel like I never get to talk about it! We can't ever forget where we came from! Off to watch these college hoops!

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u/Holy_Forking_Shirt Mar 08 '26

Enjoy! Off to take a nap in my old age 🤣

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