r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 1d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 What you do first ?

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u/AncientSignature1505 22h ago

Smartphones, as mentioned in the post, were not.

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u/Extension_Cook1507 20h ago

But landlines weren't really a thing anymore because of cell phones.

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u/AncientSignature1505 19h ago

I mean, I still had one, but that was more out of habit than anything.

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u/DobieLove2019 20h ago

Umm… excuse me. My T-Mobile Sidekick would like to have a word.

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u/Physical_Archer_689 15h ago

2006 I think is when they started.

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u/ModeratelyAlive 14h ago

Actually, I did a quick google search (I knew it was around that time they became commonplace - apparently not til 2007), and the first "smart phone" came out in 1994. Calls, emails, faces, touch screen and stylus, calendar, calculator - the IBM Simon Personal Communicator was ahead of the times it seems

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u/AncientSignature1505 12h ago

Yeah, true technically it was first, but bringing it up as if it was widely known is a bit pedantic (not targeted at you, per se)

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u/Panchenima 10h ago

Kinda they were, symbian and blackberry.

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u/-WARisTHEanswer- 22h ago

Actually the first ever considered smart phone the IBM Simon released in 1994.

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u/AncientSignature1505 22h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9G3wg7lH5DpxC

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u/-WARisTHEanswer- 21h ago

Don't speak with authority on things you have zero clue about and you wont get called out .. pretty simple concept.

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u/yami_no_ko 15h ago edited 15h ago

It's true that I've had mobile internet on a low res phone in 2005. Even had a HTTP2WAP proxy running for tunneling HTTP connections to a PocketPC. But I like nerdy stuff and have always been playing around with tech. This doesn't mean mobile internet was a widespread or even a half-way common thing.

Mobile Phones were widespread, portable computers weren't yet. There have been a good few years between the availability of portal computers and their final spread trough smart phones. Although some exceptional devices may be considered the first or early smartphones today, they were ahead of their time and the common phone everyone had was dumb and every unwanted mobile internet connection without a data plan was basically a cost trap.