One more: texting was a PAIN IN THE ASS. The first widespread phone was the old Nokia bricks, you had the number pad plus 2 extra buttons I think. When you wanted to text you would have to press the number for the corresponding letter however many times (so like for A you would push 1 once or for C 3 times, etc). When they introduced T9, the first predictive texting with a dicitionary, that was probably the most meaningful change in my interaction with technology, it was a game changer. Of course now trying to go back and use T9 is excruciating, to think it used to be much, much worse
There was a very short-lived golden age in the heyday of flip phones with hard keys and T9 dictionaries where you could actually text and drive without taking your eyes off the road for an instant.
one of my first cellphones was a slide phone with a full keyboard. i could text on that motherfucker without even looking at it, perfectly. i can almost do it with smartphones if the screen is clear and i've gotten used to it, but having a tactile keyboard was a gamechanger
One more: texting was a PAIN IN THE ASS. The first widespread phone was the old Nokia bricks, you had the number pad plus 2 extra buttons I think. When you wanted to text you would have to press the number for the corresponding letter however many times (so like for A you would push 1 once or for C 3 times, etc). When they introduced T9, the first predictive texting with a dicitionary, that was probably the most meaningful change in my interaction with technology, it was a game changer. Of course now trying to go back and use T9 is excruciating, to think it used to be much, much worse
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Lol i forgot you had to pay for them. But you’re absolutely right. Then text speech made it’s way onto AIM
and if you lived in the US and had poor parents, texting was NOT FREE
There was a very short-lived golden age in the heyday of flip phones with hard keys and T9 dictionaries where you could actually text and drive without taking your eyes off the road for an instant.
one of my first cellphones was a slide phone with a full keyboard. i could text on that motherfucker without even looking at it, perfectly. i can almost do it with smartphones if the screen is clear and i've gotten used to it, but having a tactile keyboard was a gamechanger
You literally didn't even need to remove the thing from your pocket.
i was a master at casually getting it under my desk
now you can pull a smartphone out in a meeting and no one bats an eye
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