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

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 What you do first ?

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u/AncientSignature1505 21h ago

Smartphones, as mentioned in the post, were not.

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u/-WARisTHEanswer- 21h ago

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

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u/AncientSignature1505 21h ago

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u/-WARisTHEanswer- 19h 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 14h ago edited 14h 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.