On: There’s a 30-year old dead Rabbit in Seven Sisters...

[bombcar]

It’s weird to think that cell phones didn’t really become ubiquitous until after we started do everything with them but make and take calls.

[jamiek88 → bombcar]

Right up until the iPhone the USA was miles behind Europe and Japan for cell phones, infra, cultural penetration etc.

When I moved here in 2005 people didn’t even T9 text.

At least they didn’t ubiquitously like they did in the UK where I moved from.

It wasn’t even a massive thing with the young people which at 27 I think I still qualified!

[datascienced → bombcar]

In the UK they were heavily used for voice and text and were almost ubiquitous circa 2002

[wkat4242 → datascienced]

In Holland and Ireland and Australia too. Way before they became 'smart'.

In those days we didn't use them for everything, people still used landlines sometimes. But everyone had one.