And how old are you now? (so we can see how you younger fuckers got them at an earlier age)

18 / 28

3/31/2012 9:40:59 AM

16/28

3/31/2012 9:43:01 AM

16/29


But I didn't use it like I use a cell phone today (Aside from the obvious - smart phone use). It was a shitty phone I kept plugged into my car.

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3/31/2012 9:50:53 AM

Christmas 1999 I think, I was 15 ... 28 now

3/31/2012 9:54:55 AM

my folks wanted me to get one when i got my license for emergencies and stuff

16 / 24

3/31/2012 9:57:05 AM

16/29

It was a car phone. Had to be plugged in to work, and was only used for emergencies.

3/31/2012 9:58:01 AM

lol @ "for emergencies."

I kept a few quarters in my glove box in case of emergency when i was sixteen.


as far as a cell phone...


19 / 30

3/31/2012 10:01:56 AM

^ lol, yea - I ran out of gas once and had to walk to the nearest house and beg to use the phone

3/31/2012 10:03:18 AM

17/28

3/31/2012 10:04:15 AM

yeah, i guess if my shit was broke down between home and town i could just use the pay phones scattered throughout the fields and woods

3/31/2012 10:04:16 AM

30/older than that

3/31/2012 10:04:23 AM

19/30

3/31/2012 10:05:01 AM

The only reason I got it was because it was my moms old work phone. They gave her a new one, so she put the old one in my car. I never actually used it. I got an actual cell phone that I could use any time when I was 18.

3/31/2012 10:05:38 AM

19/33

3/31/2012 10:08:39 AM

18/24

3/31/2012 10:09:57 AM

16/28 30 minutes a month split with my mom, lol

3/31/2012 10:10:37 AM

16/27

3/31/2012 10:13:06 AM

16 / 25

3/31/2012 10:16:16 AM

15/30

It was originally my mother's number. I still have the same number.

3/31/2012 10:16:46 AM

I got a pager when I was 16

SO TUFF

3/31/2012 10:18:01 AM

Oh man, I forgot how pimp everyone with a pager thought they were

3/31/2012 10:20:51 AM

It was funny because the only person that ever paged me was my girlfriend. And even that was only like once a week. But just having it on my hip made me cool.

3/31/2012 10:23:48 AM

well, I guess i got a phone when I was 17 because my mom wanted me to use it for emergencies as well. I officially bought my own with a plan at 19.

3/31/2012 10:24:00 AM

16 or 17/29 in a few weeks

3/31/2012 10:28:58 AM

I never had a pager

3/31/2012 10:30:29 AM

Does a bagphone in my car count?

3/31/2012 10:31:19 AM

Bagphone counts...it's what I had
I got a fancy flip phone when I was 18.

3/31/2012 10:35:36 AM

I barely ever got called at home so I didn't get a cell until I moved in with roommates who didn't have landlines.

23/31

3/31/2012 10:38:29 AM

WHOA- Y'all are some old f****.



....15/29

so 1998 is the year that pretty much everyone had a cell phone.

Mine was like this old crappy black one that was about the size of a really fat snickers bar.

MMMMM...snickers.

3/31/2012 10:48:06 AM

15/28

3/31/2012 10:49:55 AM

20/28

3/31/2012 10:58:08 AM

^^^ yeah, it seemed to happen pretty quick too. I remember my freshman year (1996) one of my suite mates had a cell phone, and he was the only person I knew that had one. 2 years later when I got mine, everyone had them.

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3/31/2012 10:58:40 AM

20/24

3/31/2012 11:02:10 AM

14/25

3/31/2012 12:29:22 PM

16/26

3/31/2012 12:30:14 PM

16/28. Was a car phone. Wouldn't work if car wasn't charging it. For "emergencies". Lol.

Pager at 15 though.

3/31/2012 12:33:03 PM

15/21 - after school sports was the only reason i had one

3/31/2012 12:34:12 PM

^ Oh, I had the 1-800-COLLECT scam going for that shit. When practice was over, I would call my mom using 1-800-COLLECT. It would ask "State your name", and i would respond "Come pick me up". My mom would just refuse the charges and come get me.

I was pretty slick back in the day.

3/31/2012 12:52:03 PM

Name?

Bob Weoddababyeetsaboy

3/31/2012 12:53:45 PM

yeah, i used to do that, too.


then I, too, got a bagphone, with about 20 minute per month, for emergencies.

3/31/2012 12:53:53 PM

hahaha that's hilarious

I was 15 I believe

3/31/2012 12:54:07 PM

16/25

3/31/2012 12:54:36 PM

I feel sorry for the kids that don't remember pay phones.

We used to ride our bikes to the convenient store and call 1-800 phone sex lines. You would be amazed how much a 14 year old kid could get out of those before they asked for a credit card.

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3/31/2012 12:56:15 PM

16/23

I've seen middle schoolers all having them these days though. Back in my day we had to use a payphone to call our moms to pick us up from the movie theaters

3/31/2012 12:57:47 PM

haha

3/31/2012 12:58:06 PM

I just walked everywhere. it was a small town.

3/31/2012 12:58:55 PM

i lost a blackberry riding the cyclone at coney island in 2008

i had to remember how to use a pay phone to try to communicate w/ people on my way home

3/31/2012 1:00:07 PM

17/25, my parents said if I wanted a phone I'd have to buy it my self. So I signed a contract and got a phone. I was working so it wasn't too bad.

3/31/2012 1:11:30 PM

my 9 year old cousin just got an iphone 4s >.<

3/31/2012 1:17:19 PM

that is ridiculous and your aunt and uncle are loaded if they can throw a new iphone at their 9 yr old kid.

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3/31/2012 1:19:12 PM