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Kurt_Russel
03/06/24 12:02:35 AM
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No
like, I had a pager in mid school

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Naysaspace
03/06/24 12:23:11 AM
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they barely had them in highschool. Those that did, and used them in class, had them taken by the teacher and they were returned at EOD. This was normal.

nowadays i cannot see that flying, especially because highschoolers in rich neighbourhoods have $1,200 luxury smartphones and not $89.00 flipphones.

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HannibalBarca3
03/06/24 12:40:34 AM
#54:


No. I didn't have a cell phone until I was in 12th grade.

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GGuirao13
03/06/24 2:14:54 AM
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Not from 1992 through 1998.

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CassandraCroft
03/06/24 2:36:11 AM
#56:


Here have a look at this:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9193de8a.jpg

That is the first commercially available mobile phone. It is called the DynaTAC 8000X and it was released in 1983 in the US for $3,995 which in todays money is the equivalent to $11,253!

So like I said in my previous post being in school from 1979 - 1990 it was impossible for anyone to have a mobile phone as A. they hadn't been invented yet B. The price and C. Britain had not got a mobile network set up back then.

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pjnelson
03/06/24 3:09:27 AM
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Cell phones were just beginning to become semi-common with just adults when I was in college.

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008Zulu
03/06/24 5:22:01 AM
#58:


The only mobile phones available at the time I was knee-high to a grasshopper, was the old Motorola "briefcase" phone. No kid was lugging around one of those things, especially since it's battery time was only two hours.

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PMarth2002
03/06/24 5:29:25 AM
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Vengeance29 posted...
Only when I was in highschool.


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03/06/24 6:01:36 AM
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SuperVegitoFAN
03/06/24 6:18:32 AM
#60:


Im not sure what age counts as "Grade school" since thats not defined that way in my country.

...not quite sure when i got my first either. But i assume 2002 or 2003.

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mustachedmystic
03/06/24 6:26:55 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
This is what a cell phone was when I was in grade school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZowK0NAvig
So, the dude has a twin, and they like to fuck with peoples minds

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Tyranthraxus
03/06/24 6:32:09 AM
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mustachedmystic posted...
So, the dude has a twin, and they like to fuck with peoples minds
No. It's a weird fucked up situation involving time travel for no purpose whatsoever and this dude doesn't do anything he's just there because David Lynch was tripping the whole time he was doing anything with this movie

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mustachedmystic
03/06/24 7:06:44 AM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
No. It's a weird fucked up situation involving time travel for no purpose whatsoever and this dude doesn't do anything he's just there because David Lynch was tripping the whole time he was doing anything with this movie
Occams Razor

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TyVulpine
03/06/24 7:13:13 AM
#65:


Cell phones did not really exist in the 1980s, they were the big brick sized and required bags for the batteries back then.

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loafy013
03/06/24 7:14:47 AM
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Fanciest thing I ever saw was in the middle school range. Went on a trip to Great America with a youth group. The person driving us had a car phone (think provided through his work). It blew our minds that a phone call could be made while inside of a car.

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tripleh213
03/06/24 7:15:25 AM
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thekosmicfool posted...
No I am old.


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Tyranthraxus
03/06/24 7:17:54 AM
#68:


TyVulpine posted...
Cell phones did not really exist in the 1980s, they were the big brick sized and required bags for the batteries back then.
If you were really fancy you could get a phone that ran off your car's battery!

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TyVulpine
03/06/24 7:20:34 AM
#69:


loafy013 posted...
Fanciest thing I ever saw was in the middle school range. Went on a trip to Great America with a youth group. The person driving us had a car phone (think provided through his work). It blew our minds that a phone call could be made while inside of a car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrktxWUgcyA

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Akagami_Shanks
03/06/24 7:23:50 AM
#71:


i was in high school from 2009-2013 so yes
even in middle school people were starting to get cell phones, just not smart phones obviously. it was a pretty big deal when this one kid got the first iPhone, then i got my iPhone 3G as a middle school graduation present

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Were_Wyrm
03/06/24 7:26:13 AM
#72:


Only the time traveler kids

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Bass
03/06/24 7:27:51 AM
#73:


I don't believe so. It was a bit before they were in common use. By middle school there might have been a few kids with them.

Definitely by high school most kids had phones. Mostly flip but a few had iPhones by the time we graduated.

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Villain_S_Fiend
03/06/24 7:28:05 AM
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Didn't even have a cordless phone at home when I was in grade school.

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mustachedmystic
03/06/24 7:30:41 AM
#75:


Villain_S_Fiend posted...
Didn't even have a cordless phone at home when I was in grade school.
This, my fafher was a cheapskate. Never had cable, and we got our first color TV and VCR in 1992.

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GenXer
03/06/24 7:35:43 AM
#76:


No one had cell phones when I was in grade school. No one.

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!"
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KCJ5062
03/06/24 7:40:28 AM
#77:


ForsakenHermit posted...
Not until high school. I didn't have one until my senior year.


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tankboy
03/06/24 7:43:00 AM
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Forget cell phones, I don't even think anybody had cordless phones at home.
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TyVulpine
03/06/24 7:43:54 AM
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GenXer posted...
No one had cell phones when I was in grade school. No one.

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!"
First time I actually saw one of those brick sized was on Saved By The Bell. Zack had one.

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JuanCarlos1
03/06/24 7:44:34 AM
#80:


One or 2 kids had the bulky nokias. Like back in 02-03. I think it was 05-06 when suddenly everyone had a cellphone.

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GenXer
03/06/24 7:54:57 AM
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TyVulpine posted...
First time I actually saw one of those brick sized was on Saved By The Bell. Zack had one.
I remember that. I was "too old" for Saved by the Bell, but I'll admit I enjoyed watching it (syndicated in the afternoon, not on Saturday mornings) while cooking.
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Solar_Crimson
03/06/24 8:10:01 AM
#83:


Nope. Not until the later parts of high school did we start getting some of the earlier cell phones, were you had to pay for minutes and text messages.

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sith9er
03/06/24 8:12:51 AM
#84:


I graduated in '93, so nope

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action52
03/06/24 8:24:55 AM
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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.

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Tyranthraxus
03/06/24 8:26:14 AM
#86:


GenXer posted...
No one had cell phones when I was in grade school. No one.

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!"

The first time I saw a brick phone I was driving with my parents and some guy was talking on a payphone while holding the brick phone in his hand lol

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mustachedmystic
03/06/24 10:03:41 AM
#87:


I once saw a teacher with a brick phone in 89, and I wondered how he could afford it.

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LoveLikeJazz
03/06/24 10:37:11 AM
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I graduated in 2010, kids (including myself) were only just starting to have cell phones when I was in about middle school and by high school most had one. At first it was just an "in case you need to reach your parents" thing being played off as a popular kid status symbol. But hardly anyone I knew had a smart phone until 2009 or 2010.

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ssjevot
03/06/24 10:41:22 AM
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I remember seeing that cell phone on Saved by the Bell and wondering if it was real. So obviously we didn't have them at school.

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Rharyx211
03/06/24 11:03:35 AM
#91:


hmnut7 posted...
Adults didnt have cellphones when I went to school.

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BucketCat
03/06/24 11:06:08 AM
#92:


no, there was one kid who got a cell phone between 5th and 6th grade, but they were the only one with a phone until late middle school/early high school

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008Zulu
03/06/24 4:40:03 PM
#94:


Tyranthraxus posted...
The first time I saw a brick phone I was driving with my parents and some guy was talking on a payphone while holding the brick phone in his hand lol
That was pretty common with the bricks, their talk time was shit.

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BaphometFlux
03/06/24 4:41:53 PM
#95:


I went to grade school in the late 90s/early 2000s so no.

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CyrusV
03/06/24 4:42:14 PM
#96:


Nope. Cell phones were way too expensive to give to kids.

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garan
03/06/24 5:38:29 PM
#97:


I was a kid in the 80s, so that's a no.
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Shamino
03/06/24 5:51:35 PM
#98:


Man, kids didn't even have Gameboys when I went to grade school.

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The-Apostle
03/06/24 6:13:30 PM
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Only wealthy people had them (car phones mostly), so no.

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PowerOats
03/06/24 6:16:17 PM
#100:


I started seeing cellphones often when the RAZR was the hottest shit

And Myspace was getting obnoxiously crazy. This was in middle school in like 2005 or 06
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