9.
But I had a sliding faceplate on it so I could be cool like neo.
Also it had Snake.
You could also type in ringtones.
Never in my house, but I had an elderly lady neighbor in elementary that I would play board games with my siblings that had one. I remember having to use it one afternoon and her teaching me. I don’t remember the lesson exactly, but it definitely didn’t last long.
Author started in 90s and missed entire generation of 80s suitcase phonesWas Gunna say, these pics are not old enough to give a correct answer for me.
This.
Where’s the bag phone?? The carphone???
Imagine having to buy a whole ass car just to make a phone call.
Sometimes my dad would bring that last one home from his job if he was going on a business trip. I remember on one or two occasions he also came home with a Lincoln Town Car that I think was a company vehicle mostly driven by the company president and it had a car phone in it.
Why would you not include the most epic of Nokia phones, the 3310?
Nah, you’re forgetting it’s predecessor 3210. This thing was rock solid. Battery lasted for ages. And snake… snake… snaaaaake! Only lacked a vibrate function…
And 50% of the ppl in my town had one.
I was looking for it as well!
Number 9, or something similar. It was a Bosch without keylock, so it called random people when it was in by school backpack (too big for pocket) as it had soft silicone buttons sticking out. You know, when calling was super expensive. My parents weren’t happy. Soon after I got a Nokia 3210 which had keylock and fitted in my pocket. And had snake.
How’s this not on the list!
The one with a damn cord, you ageist bastard :P
Also wheres Nokia 3310
I had a toy version of number 1. My first was number 4 or a similar model, a hand-me-down from my dad when I started driving and he upgraded to number 5. We actually found number 4 while clearing out the house when moving my parents a couple years ago. Not sure why they still had it; it had been years since anyone used it when they moved in almost 20 years earlier.
For a long time I thought that a rotary phone was one of those old wall mounted phones with the horn that you had to crank to make a call because all of those “things people born after 19XX don’t recognize” lists had rotary phones on them. I was born after 19XX and basically everyone I knew had one of these so it couldn’t be a rotary phone.
Hah! Those horn phones were rare in antique stores when I was a child. :)
I remember my parents telling me we didn’t own the phone (pictured) in their bedroom. Turns out it was rented from AT&T. Young me was shocked at the notion. “But it’s in our house!”
At some point we upgraded to a push button version, of our own. Don’t think AT&T wanted the old one back. Got one out of the trash, sitting here now, wife wants me to toss it. “No! That and mom’s cursive typewriter stay!”
punch people with it. satisfying ding
Gather 'round chillun and let grampy tell you about the times before cell phones
I remember number 1 from when I played GTA Vice City.
I remember 4 from GTA San Andreas .
9, but my dad had a 4
Ouch I had a 4
12 but my dad had a 1!
look at this dude with rich parents here
Traveling technical sales
