"Yet you use the internet? What did you do before the internet? You used books, encylopedia, etc. And you bloody well booked things in advance"
Hmmmm I appear to be getting slaughtered here. . .;-)
Nothing personal at all. I tend to agree with you partly, in that I hate seeing kids using them. I'm a school teacher, and I think mobile phones and text-based communication has robbed a generation of many opportunities to socialise face-to-face. Hence they're not very good at it. the vast majority of the kids where I teach (i.e. nearly all of them) have better phones than I do.
I think before the age of 18, you shouldn't have a mobile phone at all.
Modern kids are the equivalent of the spacker kids from when I was at school, but they have phones and t'internet so if they need to learn anythi.....sorry prove somebody wrong they can use teh google.
I blame kids TV as well though, have you seen some of the stuff that passes as kids TV these days, no wonder kids all grow up thick and f**ked up. Barney, and the Telly Tubbies were the start of it all. I know when me missus's ovaries finally sucumb to my spunk chucker, my kids will not be watching any of that sh*t at all.
Even if I hadn't I can procure a license from pakistan for $60 (or at least you could in about 1998............Stupid f**king 8 and bracket syndrome 8) 8) 8) etc...etc...).
A Sagem MC825. Small and crappy. It came out at the same time SMS was gaining in popularity. One could not read messages from it easily, and it could not store very many before it became full. 99 contacts and now more.
Mobile phones are the worst invention known to man, I hate the bl**dy things.
Anyone on here apart from me who HASN'T got one?
You're not alone. I have never owned one, nor will I ever.
I used to carry a pager in the early/mid nineties as third-line support for a few computer systems I'd written, but got paid an extra 15 quid a month for doing so. The pager went off perhaps twice a year, which was okay.
I don't see the point of being on-call 24 hours a day, and paying for the privilege.
Just watched that clip, very interesting that digital technology existed in 1979, i thought everything back then was still analogue.
The call is still analogue - you can even hear the squelch cutting in :)
The only digital part appears to be the numbers. The phone must be counting the pulses from the dial and transmitting them as data packets somehow. I'd be interested to know what system they were using to send the numbers actually :)
Right now my mobile has stopped working......quite enjoying the fact I don't get bothered by stupid text messages telling me about free stuff I don't want from Orange every half hour, but was annoyed yesterday when I couldn't get in touch with my cousin to get directions to his kids' birthday party.......
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Nothing personal at all. I tend to agree with you partly, in that I hate seeing kids using them. I'm a school teacher, and I think mobile phones and text-based communication has robbed a generation of many opportunities to socialise face-to-face. Hence they're not very good at it. the vast majority of the kids where I teach (i.e. nearly all of them) have better phones than I do.
I think before the age of 18, you shouldn't have a mobile phone at all.
I blame kids TV as well though, have you seen some of the stuff that passes as kids TV these days, no wonder kids all grow up thick and f**ked up. Barney, and the Telly Tubbies were the start of it all. I know when me missus's ovaries finally sucumb to my spunk chucker, my kids will not be watching any of that sh*t at all.
You silver tongued devil :lol:
Ooh, that was my 3rd phone... I still use it as a back-up. Yep, I got mine in about 2005/06
Current mobile:
Something tells me you've had medical training.
Even if I hadn't I can procure a license from pakistan for $60 (or at least you could in about 1998............Stupid f**king 8 and bracket syndrome 8) 8) 8) etc...etc...).
snap, same one i had, it even took batteries. :-D
Kept it for just under a year then got my first GSM phone...
Something tells me Boozie is on the brown ales tonight!:grin:
the original mercury 121 phone, got soon after they came out.. xmas day they did free calls world wide, was rammed.
specs I can recall 2 hour call time... 13 hour charge time.. a friend had 8 batteries for his :lol:
no text messaging on it.
You're not alone. I have never owned one, nor will I ever.
I used to carry a pager in the early/mid nineties as third-line support for a few computer systems I'd written, but got paid an extra 15 quid a month for doing so. The pager went off perhaps twice a year, which was okay.
I don't see the point of being on-call 24 hours a day, and paying for the privilege.
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Me (Me!) and the legend that is Jonathan Cauldwell have something in common, we DON'T have mobile bl**dy phones.
And if mobile phones ARE so "important" or god forbid, necessary, why didn't "Tomorrows World" foresee them? Eh?
Mind you, they never saw the rapid rise of the Rampant Rabbit, but that's another story altogether.
Currently using a Galaxy S2 - which will be changed for an S3 before too long
:D
Just watched that clip, very interesting that digital technology existed in 1979, i thought everything back then was still analogue.
Nortel m900 networked for Mercury One-to-One.
A bit heavier than my current mobile but otherwise no discernable difference.
I just watched it and was struck by how sh*t TW makes today's TV reporting on tech & science subjects look. :cry:
They were too busy worrying about the rising levels of Ceasium in grass.
The call is still analogue - you can even hear the squelch cutting in :)
The only digital part appears to be the numbers. The phone must be counting the pulses from the dial and transmitting them as data packets somehow. I'd be interested to know what system they were using to send the numbers actually :)
Currently on a Nokia 700:
Phone I Currently Have -
They're very convenient. It's people who don't switch them off in theatres who are the problem.
or wives that don't charge them or leave them at home the very time you want to get hold of them.
That was my first phone too! :)
Right now my mobile has stopped working......quite enjoying the fact I don't get bothered by stupid text messages telling me about free stuff I don't want from Orange every half hour, but was annoyed yesterday when I couldn't get in touch with my cousin to get directions to his kids' birthday party.......