The good old days : memes

[-] Kruemel@feddit.de 108 points 8 months ago

I hate that it uses spaces instead of 0

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 8 months ago

But you could also wait a little and it would space out the next word

[-] original_reader@lemm.ee 27 points 8 months ago

Takes too long. Who has that second or two? I've typed the next two words in that time.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 7 points 8 months ago

I hope you had great success in life with all that time saved

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[-] Fake4000@lemmy.world 93 points 8 months ago

It reached a stage where I can type messages without looking at the phone ne at all. Tactile keys has it's advantages too.

[-] Sixner@lemmy.world 36 points 8 months ago

Yeah, silently texting during class with one hand. Those were good days. When I got a smart phone without keys I was pretty annoyed texting.

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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 60 points 8 months ago

I could still read this from the numbers alone. I’m close to death aren’t I?

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[-] papabobolious@feddit.nu 58 points 8 months ago

t9 was a gamechanger

[-] somtwo@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

You could seriously text without looking at your phone screen. It was awesome!

[-] Hubi@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago

Tbh I could do that on a plain numeric keypad. I remember blindly texting under my desk in school. I wouldn't be able to do it nowadays though.

[-] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I am evidently young enough that I tried to figure it out using T9 in my head, and just got confused. So a partial win.

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[-] czardestructo@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago

The morse code of our age.

[-] aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Although morse code is way faster than t9

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago

Saved you a minute of staring at the keypad: It spells out “you are old”

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I thought it was a a song.

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[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago

I'm not old. I just know how to read numpad.

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago

Thanks. This comment put my brain in the right mode to realize what the post was saying.

I had initially thought it was one of those things where you play a song with the DTMF tones that the keypad would make.... Silly me.

[-] spez@sh.itjust.works 23 points 8 months ago

"You are old"

[-] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

youareold

[-] GiuseppeAndTheYeti@midwest.social 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

>:(

[-] vynaaa@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

I am 18 and have owned 2 such phones. Where I grew up, it was kind of a luxury to own a smartphone in the early 2010s, so I've never really thought of these as some kind of ancient technology.

[-] rjthyen@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

I'm 30 and remember my parents having these and my first two phones were Motorola razors. It was weird for most kids to have a phone until they could drive. Funny how quick it went from kids don't need phones, to well I guess they should if they're driving, to probably should be able to reach them anywhere but they don't need the smart one lol

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[-] NESSI3@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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[-] ProtonEvoker@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

Not quite, with age comes experience. Learning from that experience is wisdom.

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[-] meliante@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

The spaces should be 0

[-] Brain@lemmy.zip 13 points 8 months ago

Yeah, but the whole five of us in the school could text each other without needing to take it out of our pockets so the teachers wouldn't take it away. Kids these days won't have those awesomely useless skills.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I can type an entire sentence without looking at my phone with swipe to text ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago

I can happily say that I never did this. Not because I'm not old but because I was poor as fuck. My first mobile phone with any sort of text based plan was a company provided BlackBerry.

[-] pjwestin@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

I get it. I'm angry, but I get it.

[-] abcd@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago

What blows my mind is the (muscle) memory involved in this. I’m using touchscreen based phones for ~10-15 years and my last phones had a QWERTY keyboard (Hardware buttons!).

can still write texts like I never stopped using these phones. Using T9 I may be even faster than on my smartphone today. I really miss those tactile buttons…

[-] tooclose104@lemmy.ca 5 points 8 months ago

We have some Cisco 8xxx wireless phones at work. Setting them up from factory is great, cause you gotta input the ssid and whatnot using the keypad. Muscle memory is right lol

[-] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

I actually thought it was supposed to be a song played with the dial tones until I saw a comment about what it spelled out

Does that make me medium old? Old young?

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[-] sag@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago

No I am not.

[-] neoproterozoic@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago

66 666 88

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I can't even vote. How am I old?

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

3338822255099966688 😁

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[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 9 points 8 months ago

I'm still not as fast with swipe as I was with t9... It was great

[-] Old_Dude@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Yes, I am

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@midwest.social 8 points 8 months ago

66 33 888 33 777 0 4 666 66 66 2 0 4 444 888 33 0 999 666 88 0 88 7 0 66 33 888 33 777 0 4 666 66 66 2 0 555 33 8 0 999 666 88 0 3 666 9 66

[-] otacon239@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago

I had a hunch that was confirmed with the first three letters.

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[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

96802730653

For my T9 homies

[-] Pocketyeti@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

You really didn't even need to type all the numbers with nokia predictive text, it was a pretty goog precursor to autofill.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago

I'm so old I knew what the message said the moment I looked at it

[-] tpihkal@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Listen here you fucking guy...

[-] BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

0118999881999119725 3

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[-] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

The Nokia Code

[-] DrunkenPirate@feddit.de 5 points 8 months ago

And the battery lasted forever

[-] qevlarr@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I could still text using this by muscle memory

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