The totally off-topic thread

[Pushka]

I'm pretty sure I had a mobile in 1996. Nokia were all the rage in the early days.

 

[blackcat20]

Does anyone who isn't locked out of Hotmail still actually use it?

Yep. Everyone knows where to find me, it's linked to my Facebook etc and it works perfectly well.

 

[markis10]

I'm pretty sure I had a mobile in 1996. Nokia were all the rage in the early days.

Mobiles were introduced in 87, by the time Hotmail was invented in 96 there were two million connections on the AMPs network and 1.5 million on the digital network. At the time the Moto Microtac was all the rage, Nokias 6110/3110/7110 came a year later, about the same time as prepaid services.

 

[JohnK]

I'm pretty sure I had a mobile in 1996. Nokia were all the rage in the early days.

I had a Nokia brick in 1994 that work paid for so I can be in contact at all times. Still at home somewhere.

 

[Major]

I hired a mobile from the Golden Wings lounge in BNE in 1987. It was like a small briefcase with a strap which I had over my shoulder. My wife was expecting (in SYD).. if she rang I was on the next flight

 

[markis10]

I hired a mobile from the Golden Wings lounge in BNE in 1987. It was like a small briefcase with a strap which I had over my shoulder. My wife was expecting (in SYD).. if she rang I was on the next flight

"How long are the contractions?"

 

[Major]

"How long are the contractions?"

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That's the one...no calls in 3 days

Son born later that week in Manly Hospital

 

[anat0l]

I'm pretty sure I had a mobile in 1996. Nokia were all the rage in the early days.

1996 we only had the internet (for the kids these days, it was a 56 kilobit per second connection ) for a couple of years. I was transitioning from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95, and Microsoft Works 3.0 to Microsoft Office 95.

I think we didn't have any sort of mobile phone in those days. I think I didn't sign up for an email account with Hotmail until 1999.

I'm fairly sure that mobile phone based verification was not commonplace in those days.

The first mobile phone in our family was a prepaid account that belonged to my father, coupled with a Nokia 3310, which was as common as an Apple iPhone is now.



Web design principles have changed a lot since then. In those days, you realised that most people had slow connections, let alone a range of processors from 386s to Pentium IIs, so unless you were an idiot you designed your website and design accordingly.

These days, it's the bells and whistles and excessive goldplating which compromise the speed, function and reliability in exchange for looks. It's like how some banks are trying to operate these days - make the premises look schlick to trying and get away from the substandard service.

Looks may be required for person draw and may be the touchstone word of the hipster, but something which looks good but lacks functionality is pretty useless. Reminds you of two certain airline websites, coincidentally both from this country

 

[blackcat20]

I got my Nokia 5110 in 1999. In fact, I've still got it, and it still works.

 

[rogerkambah]

I had a Nokia brick in 1994 that work paid for so I can be in contact at all times. Still at home somewhere.

sell it on ebay, unless you are a collector - its worth cash

 

[Pushka]

We were early adopters to the internet. I remember we were fascinated with it. We went into some "forty something" forums and blundered into a conversation about the Vietnam War and the Vets were talking (we were probably in our mid thirties at the time). Anyway, one of the Vets (we didnt know that at the time) was discussing The Enterprise. So we chimed in, "Beam us up Scotty" thinking they were discussing star wars. The next thing our screen was FILLED with huge font writing threatening us with total Mayhem. At the time we wondered if somehow they could trace us and there would be some kind of retribution or something. We punched the off button so quick and didnt venture back on for a few days.

We have a nokia 5110 too - actually a couple of them.

 

[Princess Fiona]

I got my first mobile in 1995. I was living in Glasgow, fresh out of Uni and working at a rural hospital requiring travel at night on B roads. I also remember gathering around the IBM PC of my boss looking at the internet with a mixture of incredulity and awe

 

[bass_ke]

Currently at the Quality Inn Margaret River, For a Quality Inn this place is great and recently renovated.

Also, Affogatos unexpectedly turn up as the alcoholic variant.

The evening is warmer now

 

[JessicaTam]

I think my first mobile was a Nokia 2110. At the start of Vodafone in AU.

My first email address was [email protected] because I joined their OS/2 bulletin board service. Wish I had kept that one - still looks cool.

 

[Shelf]

I think my first mobile was a Nokia 2110. At the start of Vodafone in AU.

My first email address was [email protected] because I joined their OS/2 bulletin board service. Wish I had kept that one - still looks cool.

You may not appreciate my reference, however I used to 'own' [email protected] (1997ish vintage)

 

[JessicaTam]

You may not appreciate my reference, however I used to 'own' [email protected] (1997ish vintage)

I just looked it up. You sent me a Simpson's reference!?! :evil:

 

[Hvr]

You may not appreciate my reference, however I used to 'own' [email protected] (1997ish vintage)

I just looked it up. You sent me a Simpson's reference!?! :evil:

D'oh!

D'oh! (first one is too short)

 

[Mal]

Aah yes the internet. 1994/5 was my first play with the technology. Fun times.
Mobile phones. Hmm. Father owned one about 1995 (motorolla analog bag), my first was an Ericsson GH688 a couple of years later.

 

[erkpod]

You may not appreciate my reference, however I used to 'own' [email protected] (1997ish vintage)

I registered my first domain name using the name Eric Cartman - it would have been around 1999, I guess. Back then, people were discouraged from putting their real name on any website.

FB is the only social media type place where you'll see me use my full name.

 

[anat0l]

I registered my first domain name using the name Eric Cartman - it would have been around 1999, I guess. Back then, people were discouraged from putting their real name on any website.

FB is the only social media type place where you'll see me use my full name.

Like naive most-of-us in high school, I chose an email address without any part of my real name in it. Unlike many others, I didn't have to add random numbers to the end of it because the initial choice was already taken.

Sounded cool as you exchanged email addresses with the still small number of people who had the 'net, let alone used email.

Now I still have my first Hotmail but I now use my Gmail as my primary account. Hotmail addresses slowly became less attractive to put on your resume (even your ordinary sounding student email address was ten times better), as are when they have rather silly names rather than your real name (like archangel_jc or shadow_pirate or quackyducky AT hotmail dot com).