It's OK, that was only the car phone book. The phone book everyone kept in the car. Which was a perfectly normal thing everyone did.
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This was a unique point in time when people had cell phones but had to carry a phonebook because there was no mobile internet. Some time between 1992 and 2005?
Even once mobile internet was introduced, it was really expensive and many businesses didn't have a web presence that would work on mobile. It's only since maybe 2011 that someone could look up a business on their phone and be relatively confident that they'd find contact info on a mobile friendly page and not blow out their monthly data allowance in the process.
Well you had WAP which wasn't too expensive. It was slow though and not worth using. As you said, not many businesses had a web presence. From what I know, where I live, we've had a service were you could just call and get info on anything in the country. It's still active to this day.
Even in 2005, mobile internet was so shit, it might as well not have existed. 2007-2008 was when 3G was starting to get rolled out I believe, but even that was pretty damn slow and expensive. 3.5G in ~2010+ is when things were usable enough that you could perform a Google search without giving up before the your first result loads.
I remember in 2005, pulling over and calling my sister for directions on my flip phone because I got lost.
I didn't get mobile internet until like 2010. Not because I couldn't, but because it was wildly expensive for a bad experience, since "mobile-friendly" was non-existent.
This was also during the era when Google Maps was a brand new website, not a app. I think I was still MapQuesting.
I remember paying a ton because I enabled mobile data in 2009 to check the score on a football game. My normal bill was ~$50/month for unlimited talk/text, and a few megs of data to check the score on one game doubled my bill that month.
It wasn't until 2011/2012 until I had a plan w/ data, and even then it was kind of expensive and slow. I remember switching to Google Fi pretty early on because it was only $10/GB, which was a really good deal at the time.
Around that time I was a swamper on a moving truck, we had been just using a map book, worked fine. The owner decided TomTom was the future, and wanted us using it, no arguments!
We're going down the highway, fully loaded, probably going a bit faster than we should, and TomTom, in it's infinite wisdom, yells "Sharp left here!" This is Canada, and we were halfway between exits, a sharp left turn would have put us through the concrete barriers and into oncoming traffic. Needless to say, we turned Tom off, and carried on with the map book...There was also goog411 from 2007 to 2010. It was nice for finding phone numbers quickly and for free, but in hindsight, they were collecting vocal data.
In the UK at least, mobile phone ownership per household was only 16% in 1996 and didn't reach 50% until the year 2000.
To have a phone in '92 you'd need to either be wealthy or have it through a company for business.
My dad had a phone in 95 for work and it was an absolute brick.
As for mobile internet, that wasn't really a thing until smartphones happened with the iPhone. Yes we had WAP and other precursors to the full internet but it was awful and nobody used it, ever. In 2007 I was a geeky nerd at uni doing Comp Sci and had a Windows Mobile PDA in a belt holster, with full internet! But most people didn't have Internet until about 2009-10
Do you mean the Cisco iPhone from the 90s or the Brazilian iphone from the early '00s? I'm totally just taking the piss though, I know you mean the Apple one from the later '00s but it wasn't that rare to have mobile internet before it, they were just riding the wave that was already breaking across society.
Apple had a major advantage though, lots of people were already eyeing their popular mp3 player, if a phone could be a phone, internet, and a good music player you can sync easily, it won for a lot of people. I couldn't justify the price and really liked physical keyboards, by the time those became rare I disliked Apple too much to try them.
Somewhere I have my old BB 8320 from 2007, it was awesome because it had WiFi so much better speed when WiFi was available.
The T-Mobile Sidekick had a full browser in 2002 and was wildly popular with younger people.
A large part of DangerOS's architecture was later used to create Android.
I first bought a phone as soon as the first GSM networks opened, in Norway, in 1993. My first phone was a Pioneer PCC-D700 and, if memory serves, it cost 2995 NOK / ~300 EUR.
Before GSM became a thing, phones were crazy expensive, though. Almost as expensive as an iPhone, he.
In the UK at least, mobile phone ownership per household was only 16% in 1996 and didn't reach 50% until the year 2000.
To have a phone in '92 you'd need to either be wealthy or have it through a company for business.
My dad had a phone in 95 for work and it was an absolute brick.
As for mobile internet, that wasn't really a thing until smartphones happened with the iPhone. Yes we had WAP and other precursors to the full internet but it was awful and nobody used it, ever. In 2007 I was a geeky nerd at uni doing Comp Sci and had a Windows Mobile PDA in a belt holster, with full internet! But most people didn't have Internet until about 2009-10
later than 2005 for most people, the first iPhone was released in 2007, first Android phone in 2008, those things made a lot more people practically able to access the Internet from outside, and even then it took until 2009 to 2011 for many people to get one
I don't think anyone took a phone book with them. This is the first time I've ever heard it suggested.
My Father had a 'car phone' from 1990-1999ish and then switched to a nokia 3210 or similar. While he had the 'car phone', he kept a phone book in the car. By the time of the Nokia, his outbound calling was predictable enough that he either had it saved on the phone or he used '411' to have an operator look up the number.
I had mobile internet around 2002/2003 I believe. It was slow as shit and pages were just text but it was internet.
You should have seen the internet before 1993 lol.
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I miss the forbidden R-Word
It rings in my head every time I meet a Trumper.
I like the word "republitard"
For me, which I dont use it outside of discord, it means people with a perfectly functioning brain who chose ignorance. They choose to believe that all.over the nation schools are putting litter boxes out for furry kids or some stupid ass, easily disprovable, GQP bullshit.
