The first mobile phone call was made 30 years ago yesterday.

Details here (http://www.cellular-news.com/story/8627.shtml)

anyone remember the 'RABBIT' telecom thingy,where you had to stand outside a shop to make the call in the early 90's?

signal width was about 5 mts*lol*

Rabbit phones were, in the early 1990s, the poor man’s mobiles. They cost next to nothing to buy or use – but they only worked within a few metres of fixed ‘telepoints’ in shops and high street kiosks. And, in a textbook definition of useless, they wouldn’t take incoming calls, just outgoing ones.

Despite massive investment, Rabbit quickly found itself in a stew, and the entire system had to be abandoned. But it is the same short-range technology that now powers digital cordless phones for the home.

pity i couldn't find the image:(

Walky Talkies blow.

Kormiic spouted:
Walky Talkies blow.

But mobile phones are great :)

I used a mobile phone in the early nineties. Was an engineer and the company gave me a Motorola brick phone, i think i was the only person on the planet with one. It was incredibly embarrising, when it went off everybody in the street would stare at you, i used to go down alleys, shop doorways just to answer the thing, to avoid a possible kickin. I got caught out once in the middle of a square and the thing went off , i answered it and all i could hear around me was 'Fuckin Yuppie' or 'Yuppie bastard'. I muttered fuckin peasants to myself. highly embarrising. There was a stigma attached to them in the early days, yuppie syndrome, early users where the pioneers of an object that is taken for granted these days. i still hate them though.

And why do all the new polyphonic ringtone phones sound like ice cream vans ?

I too had a Motorola brick phone. Huge mean chunk of metal and plastic. And the think weighed as much as a brick. Try lugging THAT around in a pocketbook. Well, I suppose males enjoyed carrying the brick in their pocket...li'l extra bulge.

:moo:

Now I have a flippy phone that is smaller than a credit card. And lighter than...well, it doesn't weigh much at all. Let's hear it for technology. woo woo

More like boo hoo. Technology is great in the respect that things are being learned all the time. But too many people rely on modern technology and wouldn't know how to work without it.

Bring back the good old days of virgin chasing and sex whilst riding a horse before your duties as a stable boy caught up with ya.

I dig what you are saying...which is why I didn't place "woo woo" all in uppercase letters.

No, you just couldn't find your shifty key.

my shifty key is precisely where it should be. Over there on the other side of something, next to the thing, above the whatsit.

so there.

:moo:

I have a phone but I leave it at home, I use it for sms and as an alrm clock, it performs admirrably but I'd hate to be in constant contact.

I bet you also use it for the vibrate option too.