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I should get some advil...

An iPod, a phone, *and* an internet communicator!

I worked dial up tech support in the 90s You can’t scare me

I'm old enough I remember when this posted to the PA website

I'm old enough to remember this image and thinking, man that would be cool, but it will never happen.

idk my bff jill

I had Cingular when it was still called Houston Cellular.

Cingular! Time to break out my old flip phone...

The iPhone still can't drink so we're fine.

Still stuck on this… check this crap out 😂 viva la future coverage! 😂🫠

If I recall correctly, Cingular/ATT Wireless was the only provider willing to play ball with visual voicemail.

It was the other way around, AT&T was purchased by Cingular. And they were going to get rid of the AT&T name before they changed their minds.

Other way around! Cingular bought AT&T, and then like each previous company that bought AT&T, found themselves inevitably transforming into an AT&T indistinguishable from the old one in gradual horrific fashion

Cingular was great.

I worked in tech support at Cingular when it came out. People were even less normal about it than they had been about the Razr. They hated the required data plan, too.

Old enough to remember the time before Steve let the phone have apps.

Just realized I put morse code nonsense into a reply to a vet… my bad sir… ❤️

So, funny story; Verizon filmed one of those commercials in a town near where I grew up where they had *NO* coverage. Not even a roaming agreement.

The f**ked up thing is that the folks I'm moonlighting with have one of these (they aren't plasma screens, but LCDs have improved a lot), and they actually pretend sitting people at desks looking at the wall-o-screens is providing operational monitoring.

All for show. We didn’t stare at a giant wall of monitors, if the power dropped or a bulb burnt out in a tower, we got SMS alerts. You had a few minutes to tell the FAA before you started pulling $1M/hour fine. The servers were purple to match the L3 switch, the CTO liked purple, thought it popped

Send me an e-mail about this new i-phone

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I myself am a fan of free nights and weekend calling.

I'd been using a *real* smartphone for years by the time that feature-phone piece of crap got announced. (HP 6315)