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Ocelot II

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3. Or when there were tiny flip phones that had antennas you had to pull up,

Reply to a kennedy (Original post)

Fri Aug 1, 2025, 05:57 PM

Aug 1

and you couldn't do anything with them but make phone calls. Or when there were no cell phones, just pagers. Or not even those, just pay phones and land lines. And it wasn't even all that long ago.

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Ha ha, love the older movies when "cell phones" were the size of a shoe!! [View all] a kennedy Aug 1 OP

Last month customerserviceguy Aug 1 #1

Me too, I had one of those huge phones they called a "bag phone"...It was in a small briefcase size bag...those were the wcmagumba Aug 1 #2

Didn't Those Things Weigh Around 4#? ProfessorGAC Aug 2 #9

Yup, it was a beast...I've been around a while and seen a few phones... wcmagumba Aug 2 #10

Or when there were tiny flip phones that had antennas you had to pull up, Ocelot II Aug 1 #3

I had one of those too... wcmagumba Aug 2 #11

Older phones? OC375 Aug 1 #4

Almost took a recent call on my watch. usonian Aug 1 #5

Back in the late 80s, a lawyer in town (whose last name was Lawyer) rsdsharp Aug 1 #6

My dad had a "car phone" like that but it wasn't portable FakeNoose Aug 2 #8

When I was in middle school (late 60s) a guy from my church had one of those installed in his car for work, he was some wcmagumba Aug 2 #12

📲 Cellular 📼 LessAspin Aug 1 #7