Microblog Memes

Oh man. I have a nostalgia for old cellphones like the Nokia or flip phones, but not the cell plans. There was initially no internet, but when it showed up it was super limited data. Limited texts. Limited minutes. But you could get free texts and calls after a certain time of day, like 5 or 6 in the evening. Plans were expensive. If you went over your allotment of texts it was a ridiculous fee like 25¢ or 50¢ a text. Same for call minutes. You were constantly clock and usage watching. I got one bill for almost $500. Ouch.

My little brother ran up an $80 texting bill and I wanted to beat him like a dog, but I didn't.

Getting in trouble for calling long distance...

Man, of only Wet Ass Pussy existed back in those days, I feel like actually finding porn on a .WAP site would have been incredibly easy.

I had a Razr myself; after having a Sidekick. Going back to that shitty mobile web browsing experience fucking sucked. Even if you managed to find boobs on it, they're gonna be low resolution and lack a lot of color.

Unless the dude means the smartphone remake of the Razr? Or he used the OG even after the iPhone came out? He said he racked up a data bill but, like... They didn't have "data" service back then. They had talk and text. Maybe 3 or 4 phones even had real internet stuff for power users, and it was slow as fuck because you're using the incredibly slow cell network.

lost my virginity in a AOL chatroom

When I was twelve I was able to forward AIM to my SMS. Backs when texts where 11¢ a piece... $350 that month.

I guess it tracks that the type of person who would beat their son over an internet bill would also beat their dog. Some people have no business having kids or pets.

My favorite Boomer porn stories.

One kid paid for a copy of Playboy with seventy five pennies he'd saved up.

Military kids knew when 'snap' inspections would be carried out. They'd warn the troops, who would hide their porn and beer in the woods. Then the kids would search out the stashes and abscond.

I used to be able to remember about a dozen phone numbers, now I barely remember mine.

I had a -3k rubles bill when they were like 30:$1 for browsing supposedly free services from my mobile carrier. Dad didn't touch me, but the look in his eyes was more painful than that. It was a great lesson in not trusting random ads and free stuff.

it was quantumlink (aol's predecessor, for the c64) chat rooms for me. dad was long gone by then. qlink was linked to my own bank account, so i felt it in a different way. for 'porn' the most accessible thing was a simple hack for c64 strip poker so they started out nekked.

Dating when each sms cost $.20 was rough. In the long ago, BBS numbers were all long distance from our house.