Did kids have cell phones when you went to grade school?

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LeoRavus
03/05/2024
10:09 PM
#1
Could be any type of mobile phone.
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bknight
03/05/2024
10:11 PM
#2
Probably not, majority of CE is 30 and over. Early to mid 2000 was not saturated with cells phone, and most of them were dumb phones.
GeminiDeus
03/05/2024
10:16 PM
#3
Pagers were what the cool kids had when I was in high school, or maybe middle school, I forget, but my sister had one and she's 3 years older than me.
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boomgetchopped3
03/05/2024
10:19 PM
#4
Yea but only so I could call to be picked up places. I didnt carry it around all the time, that just wasnt the norm back then especially for a 5th grader
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Maverick_Reznor
03/05/2024
10:19 PM
#5
No
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JoeDangIt
03/05/2024
10:20 PM
#6
As far as I know, they didn't have them when I was in highschool.
ForsakenHermit
03/05/2024
10:20 PM
#7
Not until high school. I didn't have one until my senior year.
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Antiyonder
03/05/2024
10:22 PM
#8
bknight posted...
Probably not, majority of CE is 30 and over. Early to mid 2000 was not saturated with cells phone, and most of them were dumb phones.

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hmnut7
03/05/2024
10:22 PM
#9
Adults didnt have cellphones when I went to school. Cellphones were as realistic as hover cars still waiting by the way
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archizzy
03/05/2024
10:24 PM
#10
For me that was the early 80s to the upper mid 80s so no. No one had cell phones all the way through graduating high school.
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wackyteen
03/05/2024
10:25 PM
#12
Depending on what you define as grade school.

Like 5th grade was 2003/2004, so it was plausible for a kid to have a cell phone but I don't particularly remember it. Saw more iPods than anything else.

For middle school, don't remember any cell phones but I was nose deep in books at school so I never paid anymind to anyone else.

By 2008/9th grade(or might have been 10th grade/late 2008), definitely know at least one kid had a smartphone/iPhone 3GS.
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Umbreon
03/05/2024
10:25 PM
#13
I had a Nokia in high school I think, though this was before cell phones were common and if anyone else had one they didn't have them out because they'd get confiscated.
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sfcalimari
03/05/2024
10:26 PM
#14
Pay phones and TI-85's.
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ForsakenHermit
03/05/2024
10:28 PM
#15
sfcalimari posted...
Pay phones and TI-85's.
Funnily enough my high school did have a pay phone when I was there but by the time my stepsister was in hs it was gone.
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MabusIncarnate
03/05/2024
10:29 PM
#16
Nah, most kids in general didn't have them, it was more the pager era in the 90s
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thekosmicfool
03/05/2024
10:29 PM
#17
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Zikten
03/05/2024
10:30 PM
#18
I was in grades 1 to 5 in the late 80s and early 90s. So....no
2Pacavelli
03/05/2024
10:31 PM
#19
Not until Middle School.

Elementary for me was 1998 - 2005.

Actually in the 5th grade in 2005 at the end of the school year I did have a Nokia. But most of elementary none of us had cell phones
Zergrush80
03/05/2024
10:33 PM
#20
Internet wasnt even a thing let alone cell phones.
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NoxObscuras
03/05/2024
10:38 PM
#21
No. Cell Phones weren't that common until after I was in high school. I didn't get my first phone until 10th grade. It was a "chirp" phone with boost mobile.
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thekosmicfool
03/05/2024
10:45 PM
#22
I was in high school before we even got a PC and dial up internet.
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Robot2600
03/05/2024
10:46 PM
#23
not kids, but by 5th grade some parents had mobiles, including mine. my dad had a car phone.
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bigtiggie23
03/05/2024
10:46 PM
#24
No. Pagers just started to become popular when I was in high school, even though the school would take them if a student had one.
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action52
03/05/2024
10:46 PM
#25
Pagers were just starting to become popular when I graduated high school.
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LeoRavus
03/05/2024
10:50 PM
#26
Zergrush80 posted...
Internet wasnt even a thing let alone cell phones.

I remember when I first saw the internet. I was at a friend's house after school and he told me to watch the computer screen as a collage of porn pics slowly loaded. He started to panic because it was taking too long and his mom was due home. I don't think it ever finished before he turned it off as she walked in the door.
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ForsakenHermit
03/05/2024
10:51 PM
#27
My dad had a pager for work but that was the only one I remember.
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party_animal07
03/05/2024
10:51 PM
#28
Yes technically. Maybe 2 out of every 10 students had one.
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Serious_Cat
03/05/2024
10:55 PM
#29
I think a few people had cell phones in high school.
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AgentCoulson
03/05/2024
10:56 PM
#30
I remember some of my classmates having cellphones in eighth grade. I didn't get one until high school.That would've been 2008.
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Ratchetrockon
03/05/2024
11:01 PM
#31
Yeah around the 4th or 5th grade is when I saw people using blackberries, razers, and fireflies.

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McMarbles
03/05/2024
11:02 PM
#32
When I was in grade school cellphones were the size and weight of a brick and only millionaires could afford them.
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Tyranthraxus
03/05/2024
11:04 PM
#33
This is what a cell phone was when I was in grade school

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ArrogantRat
03/05/2024
11:06 PM
#34
cell phones were barely a thing in the 90's and early 2000's
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LeoRavus
03/05/2024
11:09 PM
#35
McMarbles posted...
When I was in grade school cellphones were the size and weight of a brick and only millionaires could afford them.

I first saw a cell phone on The Fresh Prince. It was one of those bricks.
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Guide
03/05/2024
11:10 PM
#36
I think 2007 is when I started seeing them everywhere.
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MyMainAccount
03/05/2024
11:11 PM
#37
Not until I was in college, but even then it was less common until my last couple years when it really took off.
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ForsakenHermit
03/05/2024
11:16 PM
#38
LeoRavus posted...
I first saw a cell phone on The Fresh Prince. It was one of those bricks.
My aunt had one in the '90s that looked like a regular cordless landline phone except it had an extra button to dial.
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Euripides
03/05/2024
11:17 PM
#39
I didn't have a cell phone until grad school (circa 1998)
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CassandraCroft
03/05/2024
11:26 PM
#40
They weren't even invented when I wen't to primary/high school between 1979 - 1990.
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SauI_Goodman
03/05/2024
11:33 PM
#41
In 1988 I think not
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Quorthon109
03/05/2024
11:35 PM
#42
Can't recall a single kid before high school even having a beeper. I got a cell phone in sophomore year of high school ('02 or '03).
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Bugmeat
03/05/2024
11:35 PM
#43
Kids didn't even have them when I was in highschool. I'm sure a few did. But I didn't know anyone that did. They weren't the classic bricks anymore. But they were still pretty uncommon.

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modena
03/05/2024
11:37 PM
#44
I got a Sprint phone in '02. Kinda sucked since out of my friends I was the only one who had it. So I can't tell you how many times I've had to dial numbers for people to borrow it.
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Vengeance29
03/05/2024
11:38 PM
#45
Only when I was in highschool.
LeoRavus
03/05/2024
11:43 PM
#46
My first was a basic Motorola flip phone with no camera. Texting on it sucked since each number button had 3-4 letters on it, so you had to press the same button multiple times just to get the letter you want.
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dameon_reaper
03/05/2024
11:48 PM
#47
When I was a kid we still had gameboys and Dragon Ball Z was only at Frieza saga. The internet was just budding and then a little later, Runescape was a big deal. By the time cellphones became widely used I was already out of school. Hell, I still remember being in my early 20s and having a shit phone that would drain data just by connecting to the internet.

Now phones are advanced and you can watch television on them or surf the net without having to enter a specific program just to get in.
PerseusRad
03/05/2024
11:52 PM
#48
I think there were some who had one, but I don't know how prevalent they really were.
El_Marsh
03/05/2024
11:54 PM
#49
Gradeschool? Fuck no. Some of us still had rotary phones at home lol.

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The_Wheelman1
03/06/2024
12:01 AM
#50
We had those prepaid Nokia phones back in the 2000s and very few kids had them.
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