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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

You got your first mobile phone?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

18. In 1998

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

29, whapper-snipper

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By *he Mac LassWoman
over a year ago

Hefty Hideaway

16 but only because I moved away from home/friends and needed to keep in touch.

It was a massive Motorola and I was absolutely blown away when someone showed me how to send a text

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"18. In 1998"

I was only smol in 1998.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

24 … 25 maybe

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

I was in 6yh for do must have been 16 or 17. Massive brick of a Motorola!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"29, whapper-snipper "

Excited to be a whapper snipper now. Ha you were older than I am now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would have been 17 or 18. It was a brick and didn't really work. Must have been 19 when I got the next one.

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By *lik and PaulCouple
over a year ago

Flagrante

About 33 I think

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham


"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone "

I remember having to programme them in on the phones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"29, whapper-snipper

Excited to be a whapper snipper now. Ha you were older than I am now "

Yes I was. That'll teach you!

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone "

I got one of those slide up LG phones for my 10th birthday but I remember these phones

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Think I was 18 so it would have been 98

First phone was a sagem

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By *uicy 2020Woman
over a year ago

London

16, when i was in my 1st weekend job. But i was super cool and had a pager in my last year of school, you know, for all those emergencies i had then . X

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"16 but only because I moved away from home/friends and needed to keep in touch.

It was a massive Motorola and I was absolutely blown away when someone showed me how to send a text

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bless you. Motorolas were fancy in my youth

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone

I remember having to programme them in on the phones "

Haha back when you used to have to pay for them??

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"16, when i was in my 1st weekend job. But i was super cool and had a pager in my last year of school, you know, for all those emergencies i had then . X "

Wow you were SUPER cool. A pager?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Must have been 16/17, think it was a Mitsubishi thing with a flip cover over the keys, very shit… funny thing was I couldn’t even use it where I wanted as I lived in a place with no mobile signal! Haha

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"24 … 25 maybe"

What did you have?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Think I was 18 so it would have been 98

First phone was a sagem

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God 18 in 98

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

12 it was a 3210

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was in my 40s

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone

I got one of those slide up LG phones for my 10th birthday but I remember these phones "

Hahaa I remember those. I also remember being about 13 and everyone getting those Motorola Razor flip phones in bright pink...

I got a T Mobile G1 with a slide-out keyboard when I was 14. It was one of the first phones you could get apps on... I was the coolest kid in my year that year

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By *.R.MMan
over a year ago

Norfolk

I can’t remember how old I was, it was the 90’. A brick of a phone, Motorola with a flip down thing at the front

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was about 10 but it was only because my older sister used to take me and my brother to school but leave us at the end of the street so she could go to her school so I needed a way to contact her if she was late.

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By *luebell888Woman
over a year ago

Glasgowish

37.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

18-19! My brother and I bought it between us, something like 50p per minute for a call

I’m not even going to put the year…I feel sooo old.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"11, one of those silver and baby blue Sony Ericssons. And I used to record my favourite songs playing on the tv/radio to use as my ringtone

I got one of those slide up LG phones for my 10th birthday but I remember these phones

Hahaa I remember those. I also remember being about 13 and everyone getting those Motorola Razor flip phones in bright pink...

I got a T Mobile G1 with a slide-out keyboard when I was 14. It was one of the first phones you could get apps on... I was the coolest kid in my year that year "

Omg I remember these phones. Someone in my year had the G1 and I was SO jealous. But when I was 12/13 blackberries had become the thing.

The Motorola razors were so cool- my mum bought one and I used to tell my friends to make her seem cool

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"18-19! My brother and I bought it between us, something like 50p per minute for a call

I’m not even going to put the year…I feel sooo old. "

50p A MINUTE?!?!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

13 and it was a Nokia 3330 who remembers Snake? Haha

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school. "

How did you communicate with people before then?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"13 and it was a Nokia 3330 who remembers Snake? Haha "

I bought a brick phone a few years ago and banged out snake ALL the time. Just like in the good old days

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"I was about 10 but it was only because my older sister used to take me and my brother to school but leave us at the end of the street so she could go to her school so I needed a way to contact her if she was late."

You were 10 as well. Cool kid

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I was about 10 but it was only because my older sister used to take me and my brother to school but leave us at the end of the street so she could go to her school so I needed a way to contact her if she was late.

You were 10 as well. Cool kid "

I was a bit disappointed because none of my friends had one so I could only text my middle aged cousin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"18-19! My brother and I bought it between us, something like 50p per minute for a call

I’m not even going to put the year…I feel sooo old.

50p A MINUTE?!?! "

I know right. And it was on peak and off peak tariffs. I remember someone giving me a quid or something to call a cab once.

Damn. I had a pager too. (Valid reason for that ‘poser gadget’.) but man, how times moved so quickly.

I remember being charged 12p for a text when that became a thing.

*interesting story behind the text messages actually.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.

How did you communicate with people before then? "

Steeeeeve

Through cave paintings, duh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.

How did you communicate with people before then? "

I used parchment and a quill

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By *2000ManMan
over a year ago

Worthing

I still have it and all my old phones. Cannot recall when I got it..late 1990s early 2000s?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.

How did you communicate with people before then?

Steeeeeve

Through cave paintings, duh"

. Wow! That’s even before the days of sending messages with ravens

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By *andyfloss2000Woman
over a year ago

ashford

45 ish x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

15. (1999) i collected pepsi ring pulls for it.

I didnt really know what to do with it back then either

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.

How did you communicate with people before then?

Steeeeeve

Through cave paintings, duh

. Wow! That’s even before the days of sending messages with ravens"

You cheeky sod

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"34 ! It was the year 2000 when my daughter started primary school.

How did you communicate with people before then?

I used parchment and a quill"

oh of course! Silly me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"16, when i was in my 1st weekend job. But i was super cool and had a pager in my last year of school, you know, for all those emergencies i had then . X "

Omg I had a pager too

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By *cplsMan
over a year ago

Nr Waltham

I would have been 30 in 1991. I got a huge Phillips phone. Couldnt fit in my pocket. Charge only lasted a few hours and signal was dire.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

38 in 2000

It was a Motorola something or other with a little stubby aerial, payg on One 2 One. An ex's parents bought us matching ones for Xmas

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By *urls and DressesWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere near here

I was about 13 or 14 I think, I saved for it using my paper round money

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

18. 2003

Texts were expensive and txt spk had a purpose. I was maniacal about it.

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

Late thirties early forties I think.

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands

43 in 1983 A brick size mobile, and a separate fixed in car phone.

Two different systems two different numbers.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"38 in 2000

It was a Motorola something or other with a little stubby aerial, payg on One 2 One. An ex's parents bought us matching ones for Xmas "

Omg this story has made my morning. Aerial? Matching ones. Woah

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"43 in 1983 A brick size mobile, and a separate fixed in car phone.

Two different systems two different numbers."
no way there was mobiles in 1983???

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Late thirties early forties I think. "

Bet you two were cool

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester


"12 it was a 3210 "

Totally indestructible!

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By *RANDMRSJAECouple
over a year ago

chester

I was 29!! Only got my own when I was expecting my daughter!

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By *interfoxWoman
over a year ago

maesteg

I remember getting one for my 16th birthday 2006 don't remember what brand it was but it was pink

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By *ickshawedCouple
over a year ago

Wolverhampton

Age 17. It was my Christmas present that year. I think texts were 10p each, and the first thing I did was to text my secret boyfriend

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By *urora1912Woman
over a year ago

Norfolk East anglia

1999 when I got my first car parents want to know I was safe when out and about

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By *acey_RedWoman
over a year ago

Liverpool

I think I was 12/13. It was my dad's old one and it was so my mum could get hold of me when I went out after school and I didn't really use it because it often only got topped up about £5 so I could make emergency calls. I was probably about 14 when I actually started texting my friends when they brought out those unlimited text deals when you top up so much.

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By *olymalelincsMan
over a year ago

southend

It would have been around 1994 just before leaving school and it was an old Erickson with a two line text display and and the removable coloured key surround, then I went on to get a Nokia 3210 (for snake ofcourse)

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"It would have been around 1994 just before leaving school and it was an old Erickson with a two line text display and and the removable coloured key surround, then I went on to get a Nokia 3210 (for snake ofcourse)"

Snake!

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)


"Age 17. It was my Christmas present that year. I think texts were 10p each, and the first thing I did was to text my secret boyfriend "

Texts were 50 cents a pop when I got my first phone. About 25p.

People laugh at txt spk. It was frugality

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An Ericsson at 18. My father had a mobile with a huge battery pack you’d have to carry with it. Would cost a fortune to phone him and then he’d moan we’d called and disturbed him! Nightmare

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds


"43 in 1983 A brick size mobile, and a separate fixed in car phone.

Two different systems two different numbers. no way there was mobiles in 1983??? "

Google says the first mobile phone call made in UK was 1985

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

More youngsters- anyone remember the T mobile 5 day pass

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

26

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A Siemens C25 when I was 13. With One 2 One being the network. May as well have been a morse code reader because no one was going to phone or text me

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By *emorefridaCouple
over a year ago

La la land

21 and only because I had started long journeys in a clapped out car.

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By *r SproutMan
over a year ago

the middle

17, just after I started driving so I could let my parents know I wasn’t coming home for whatever reason

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By *arkus1812Man
over a year ago

Lifes departure lounge NN9 Northamptonshire East not West MidlandsMidlands


"43 in 1983 A brick size mobile, and a separate fixed in car phone.

Two different systems two different numbers. no way there was mobiles in 1983??? "

First hand held mobile in USA 1973, in UK 1983 Motorola 8000x, I was working as a contractor for Cellnet in the Milton Keynes area but having double checked it would have been 1985 not 1983. these hand held phones were not available to the public at this time but I believe in car ones were.

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

Same age as you claimed to be when I first met you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

32. Yeah I was late to the club. I didn't want one because I knew it would be just another way of my parents checking up on me constantly

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

About 15. I was always out and about problem was it was a PAYG and phoning/texts soon ate thru the credit. It was something like 15p per text and 35p per minute.

Had a Vodafone generic phone. It worked quite happily when I could afford to top it up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Late 20’s

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My second phone was the 3210. If you didn’t have the So Solid Crew, adidas or Nike logo on it you weren’t one of the cool kids

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Mid 20's. My first call was 999 for an ambulance

C

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"About 15. I was always out and about problem was it was a PAYG and phoning/texts soon ate thru the credit. It was something like 15p per text and 35p per minute.

Had a Vodafone generic phone. It worked quite happily when I could afford to top it up."

Thank god for contracts eh?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Same age as you claimed to be when I first met you "

! Can I just say that I didn’t say I was that age, I just went with it.

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By *andybeachWoman
over a year ago

In the middle

I think it was around 2000, so I would have been 34

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By *hrista BellendWoman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights


"Same age as you claimed to be when I first met you

! Can I just say that I didn’t say I was that age, I just went with it. "

Splitting hairs there Steve

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By *piderBunnyCouple
over a year ago

Back of Nowhere and Beyond

17. I wasnt allowed a car without a mobile phone, and I argued until I was blue in the face with my dad about it.

Eventually I agreed, but told him he would always have to pay for it...

Posh

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By *adyBugsWoman
over a year ago

cognito


"18. In 1998"

Same here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

1997, I was 17

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By *andonmessMan
over a year ago

A world all of his own

22, in 1996. Damn thing was the size of a brick lol. Could receive texts but not send them

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