Car Phone

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 08/05/2015 at 11:36 • Filed to: None

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You youngsters have no idea what we had to put up with.....

FKA-RacecaR > ttyymmnn 08/05/2015 at 11:42

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Damn kids nowadays with their fancy do-dad-giza-ma-bobs talking on their texts with the web and what nots.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 08/05/2015 at 11:42

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And then came the bag phone.

ttyymmnn > FKA-RacecaR 08/05/2015 at 11:45

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ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/05/2015 at 11:46

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Which was 90% battery. I would suggest that the greatest leap forward in pocket devices has been the development of ever smaller yet ever more powerful batteries.

PS9 > ttyymmnn 08/05/2015 at 11:56

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First it was a room. Then it got small enough to fit in a large cabinet. Then it became small enough to fit on your desk. Then a large suitcase, so you could take it with you anywhere. Then a bit larger than a textbook. Now you can get one the size of a magazine with enough battery power to last hours, and enough space to store every back-catalog of all the magazines you’ve ever read.

Or you can do all that with one that fits in your pocket.

These machines have been getting closer and closer to us, further and further into our personal space. And now that they contain all the information to all your social connections - some of which happen exclusively in the ‘cloud’ - ...they are our personal space now.

The next step is to put them in our bodies and have them interface directly with our minds. That sounds insane. But so did intercontinental flight before the Wright brothers came along...

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 08/05/2015 at 11:57

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Absolutely. They could be wired into the car battery, but you still had a big handset with a cord that provided power and a connection to the external antenna. Remember these?

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/05/2015 at 12:01

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I remember those well. Remember the fake ones they used to sell? To stay current with the times, they are now selling fake shark-fin antennas.

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/fake-car-a…

ly2v8-Brian > ttyymmnn 08/05/2015 at 12:02

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I wouldn't mind having that Impala drop top though.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 08/05/2015 at 12:07

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I do remember the fake ones! A friend of mine used one of the real cell phone antennas in place of the antenna for his radio (remember when cars had radios instead of infotainment systems?). He always wondered why he got lousy reception.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 08/05/2015 at 12:14

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Phones then got really, really small (remember the running gag from Zoolander?), but now they’re getting really big again. Yeah, they do a lot more, but the size thing is still kind of ironic.

My 2-year-old daughter will take any rectangular solid object and hold it up to her ear like a phone. My 5-year-old son can recognize a rotary dial phone, but has never seen one in person. Both of them will sometimes look at our home phone (VoIP) handset and wonder where the screen is for facetime. Audio and video are merging to where kids don’t even understand the differences.

I just remember cruising around town in 1995 with my mom’s $500 Nokia flip-phone and being told not to lose it and only to use it in emergencies. It was 35 cents a minute, after all!

/old

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 08/05/2015 at 12:42

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Our first cell phone, which we got in the early ‘90s, was a GTE (rememer them?) and it was literally the size of a brick. It had an extendable antenna, and was ONLY to be used for emergencies. My wife and I would take turns carrying it depending on who needed it. But coverage was so bad, it was almost not worth it. And there was no chance you would ever put it in your pocket. In fact, I think it came with a wrist strap.

Change is inevitable. What is so mind boggling is the rate of change. Hell, we went from the Wright Brothers to the Moon in 66 years.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > ttyymmnn 08/05/2015 at 13:15

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and we still bitch about them lol. If a phone needs to be charged before we go to bed at night, we complain. Not taking a moment to recognize that 10 years ago the cool kids in your school had a RAZR flip phone.

sketchcat > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/05/2015 at 13:24

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had one of those.

when i pulled that bad boy out from under the seat.. SPLOOSH went my date

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Ash78, voting early and often 08/05/2015 at 13:26

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I remember playing snake on my mom’s Nokia brick. Our family was pretty poor at the time so no Gameboy for us, but my mom was taking us kids on a roadtrip to her grandparents, from Maine to N. Carolina. My dad couldn’t go as he had to work, so they decided to get one of those new cell phones in case she go lost, or the Mercury broke down. me and my three siblings all took turns playing snake on this stupid little screen the whole trip. It wasn’t till like 98 that I finally did get a OG Gameboy, which my big brother bought used from a friend, when all my friends got Pockets. I still remember being amazed when on kid on the bus got a Gameboy Color. It’s crazy that now I have a 3 year old phone that can easily play and GBA game on a bigger screen, while listing to whatever music I choose out of 32 gigs on my SD card, or even streaming Amazon, or Pandora.

Jack Does Cars > PS9 08/05/2015 at 14:08

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Yes, I would like some of what you are having.

Jack Does Cars > ly2v8-Brian 08/05/2015 at 14:08

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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > TheRealBicycleBuck 08/05/2015 at 16:37

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You missed a few steps.