• Mom Nom Mom@nom.mom
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    1 year ago

    Like the translucent (still corded, so not that hi-tech) phone with the bright colors for all the components? I had one of those! I think the outer part of my cord was actually clear, too.

    Ooh, and that dope clear pager was hella rad!

    On that note, remember payphones?? (getting paged by my mom and having to find a payphone to call the family 800# and check in…)

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      1 year ago

      Wait, family 800 #? I don’t remember that. We skipped pagers though, so I remember them being a thing, but I only saw them on TV, don’t think I ever saw one in person besides on doctors at a hospital.

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        1 year ago

        Huh. Well, it was a feature that my parents paid the telco for, so I don’t know how it worked, but it was exactly what it says on the tin: an 800 telephone number that I could use from any phone and call my house phone.

        Pagers were mostly a thing that dealers had so you could buy drugs. My mom got me one because I was always out driving around - sometimes up to 2 hours away on a whim - and she wanted to be able to check on me. We didn’t have a cell phone, so this was the solution for her.

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      1 year ago

      You should take a look at the Nothing Phone if you still dig that aesthetic.

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        1 year ago

        Oh yeah! I have actually seen that (well, Phone(1) anyhow). I think it’s on my short-list for after my Pixel6a! Thanks for bringing it back to my attention 😁