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Topic	Did kids have cell phones when you went to grade school?
action52 03/06/24 8:24:55 AM #85:	GenXer posted... A few rich people might have had those early car phones, but not even those "brick" cell phones were around yet. Yeah, they existed in the 70s, but the first time I saw a "brick" was when I was in college in '85. I remember that only because it was around the same time as when Back to the Future came out and I thought "Wow, now that's futuristic!" When I was in grade school (late 80s), cell phones were called "car phones" and most people saw them as something only pretentious yuppies were interested in. --- "It's Brockin' time." Erin Brockovich, Erin Brockovich <cite>action52 posted [p:979215706] in Did kids h... [t:80713886]...</cite> <quote>GenXer posted... </cite><quote>A few rich people might have had those early car phones, but not even those "brick" cell phones were around yet. Yeah, they existed in the 70s, but the first time I saw a "brick" was when I was in college in '85. I remember that only because it was around the same time as when Back to the Future came out and I thought "Wow, now that's futuristic!"</quote>When I was in grade school (late 80s), cell phones were called "car phones" and most people saw them as something only pretentious yuppies were interested in. --- "It's Brockin' time."Erin Brockovich, Erin Brockovich</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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