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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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In the 1980s perfect strangers drove you places. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Devices were getting cheaper, not quite to mass adoption but getting there, however service wasn't nearly universal like it is today. There were whole towns and even some suburbs that didn't have coverage yet. It wasn't until the introduction of 3G (around like 2006, if memory serves) that phones got cheap and service became blanket for most people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yea I didn't get a cell phone until like 2004/5 and I only had coverage for like half the places I spent time at in my town. All my friends lived out in the country so I was unreachable most of the time until several years later.