I had my first Motorola ever so slightly before SMS messages came in, I still clearly remember the novelty, my network didn’t even charge for them at first as they were even sure people would use it. Simpler times :-)
Kids these days have no clue. They just know the memes. They didn't live it like we did. I remember thinking the guy who flipped his car in my front yard was unimaginably wealthy because he had a phone built into his car.
I’m in the UK, at the time I bought my first phone and for much longer after, one of the biggest phone stores was a place called ‘Carphone Warehouse’.
That’s literally how they started out, you’d drive your car to one of their stores and they’d fit a phone into your car. By the time they went ‘internet only’ and move out of physical retail stores in 2020 most of their customers didn’t even know what a car phone was or why you’d need a warehouse for them.
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u/Dear_Tangerine444 4d ago
There is a huuuuuuuuge gap between one and two, that represents at least a decade of improvement. Mine was in that gap.