Life was so much easier back in the days when we had these...
 

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I remember cops asking me if I was Doctor every time I got pulled over for something stupid.
Like only Doctors used to carry beepers.

Then I graduated to this, I never used it because it was like 5 bucks a minute, but no text, no emails, no camera, no video, no gps, no internet. Just a phone to make an emergency calls. Unless you had it Chipped. But I was too nerdy to do that.

http://www.mobilegazette.com/handset...la-4500x-1.jpg

Never had a pager.

Did have the huge phone though. Was fucking heavy but the reception on it was good.

Yeah having a beeper and having to find a phone to make the call was much easier than carrying a phone in your pocket..

pagers were great for bootie calls..

i reserve the right to let my cellphone switched off - like today

i had a monster nokia back in the day. only held around 30 min of battery charge lol. never had a pager, but i remember my dad always having a pager for business. i got my ex, ex, ex, ex, ex, ex ,ex girlfriend a pager way back when lol.

You are starting to show your Cyber Age... Dave :winkwink: :1orglaugh :thumbsup

i had pagers. hated them.

With the old tv's and radio's with the UHF band, you could just sit there and click around and pick up every single cellular call, hahaha. The originals were 100% analog with no time or data encoding whatsoever.

yeah got my first cell phone in the early 80's

Life was so much easier back in the days when we had these...

http://www.gambling911.com/epassporte-card.jpg

life was so much easier before it began to suck.

"skytel"


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i remember growing up without a t.v. remote control, my pops used to have me sit next to the tele and switch the channels for him.

life was so much easier before tubes

our 1st microwave was so heavy it took 2 of us to carry it from the car to the kitchen!

That's cause your mom was sitting on top of it

buh duh duh tishhhhhhhhhh

dad?



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my old man worked in electronics, so we always had the newest gizmos & gadgets before they were officially on the market. We had one of those giant satellite dishes on a freakin' trailer parked in the backyard too for a while.... i think it picked up 3 channels after hours of fine tuning. lol

lolz, i remember when the neighbor got one of those, hah, you're right, there was ~3 channels

Fucking pagers... I hated to have to work with one of those. ALWAYS reachable :(

i had a pager, never a zack morris phone though. who had one of these back before text messaging existed?

http://www.telcomwireless.com/images/timeport.gif

i remember setting up trade show booths when Apple II was released.... jesus fuck i'm gettin' old. :(

fuck, how old are you?

not as old as you :winkwink:

i didn't thnk so, just seemed odd you were setting up booths, slave labor dad eh?

yeah, but worth it for all the free schwag

well, at least you got some cool shiz, i got the lawn clippings. :1orglaugh

Im gong to get mt GF a fucking beeper...always texting!

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LOL, a pager. I got a pager my senior year of high school, 1998.

Isn't it crazy that we live in the times Technology developed.
Look how far we have seen TV and Cell Phones change, not counting everything else.

What will Apple do in the next 50 years?

What cell phones will my kids be using when they turn 15? Crazy to even think about it.
I'm still waiting for the flying car.

Haha. I had to wear those for years when I was a restaurant general manager.

They called them a "two way" right?

I had a buddy who would always carry 2 pagers... GANGSTA!
Never had one myself.

Not long to wait then http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-20015841-76.html :thumbsup

I had the first generation blackberry sent to me for free by RIM back in the day

http://images.crackberry.com/files/u...ckBerry850.jpg

Wish I'd had the sense to buy some stocks...

I like this one much better

http://www.instablogsimages.com/imag...g-car_5965.jpg

http://www.gizmowatch.com/entry/afte...lying-car-now/


And this one

http://www.scienceprog.com/wp-conten...5-aircraft.jpg

http://www.scienceprog.com/icon-a5-b...ext-new-level/

the electromagnetic waves of those massive phones, would burn your head, dude...

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Damn, right around the corner. Thanks for the link.

Not sure I would trust Valet drivers with this one. :1orglaugh

If you're ever itching to do that sort of thing again, that's my dad's business and they're in SF for client shows all the time.

I'm trying to talk my brother in law out of buying a new Malibu ski boat, and going in on one of those Icon A4 sport planes posted above.

Man they have come a long way.

yeah, there was only a few kind of them but motorola timeport was the most popular.

So true. Look how much has changed just in the past 5 years. Can't even imagine what will be available in 25 - 50 years. Unless they all revolt and go back to the beeper. ;)

Man those were damn good too. Loved mine. :thumbsup

doctor? :1orglaugh
better guess would have been a drug dealer...

I remember my dad having a car phone. The oldest computer I remember him having was with 8 inch floppy disks. "Football" was a text only game - you're either on offense or defense, you pick pass or rush and it tells you how many yards were gained or lost. Good times.

It wasn't even all that long ago that we got ATM's. Every Friday you had to take your check to the bank and wait in a long line to deposit it. You also tried to decide exactly how much you'd need to make it through the week so that you wouldn't have to go back.

Now it is not even necessary to ever see a teller.