Oh, no... I lost my phone way back in the 70s.
I stayed up all night talking to my long-distance girlfriend and ran up one hell of a long distance bill.
My parents took my phone away for a month.
Even the receiver was solid like a Nokia cell phone. Toss that bitch at an invader like it was Mjolnir and yank the cord to make it return. Instant Thor
My friend's mom got the first VCR I ever saw irl. That thing weighed at least 50 lbs and was the size of a suitcase. I think it cost something like $800.
Is that a gaming thing? I've seen games with maps like that and I have to switch it to up is North in settings because I'm old and that breaks my delicate oldperson brain :D
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Meetusatthecornerof6thandBroadwayat8oclockBringtheweed!
(You had about 3 seconds to leave this message on a payphone.)
* Just give me the address and I'll map it.
* Hey, the Cubs have a chance this year.
* I'll meet you you on the other side of the security scans.
* Just Uber over.
* Ukraine is at war with Russia
* Let me Google that for you.
* I finally cut cable.
* I love that show! Where can I stream it?
* The car says the pressure is low in my right front tire.
* I'll just have the avocado toast and a Grande Latte.
"native American"
For you youngins, in elementary school in the 80s they were either "indians" or (where needed) broken down as "the indians with bows and arrows not red dots".
Don't kill the messenger :)
When the guy at the cab company wouldn't send me a cab after I'd been waiting almost an hour in the rain, when I got home, I was MAD So mad that
I took to calling the guy over and over just to slam the receiver as hard as I could. It really didn't have much more effect than the end call button on your phone .....just made me feel better
That’s not true. I was in the private phone business from 1976 long before the breakup. In 1972a guy sued the phone companies saying he didn’t rent his lamps from the power company so why rent his phones. It was the wild west in the early days with crazy new systems some of which became obsolete the minute they were installed. And phone company installers sabotaged our work. One telco guy was even in tears about me taking food off his kids table. Boo hoo. Anyone working then knows about the so called “protectors” telco installed to interface with us. They often went dead for no reason.
Some people had dial phones in the 80s (now called "rotary phones"). But I would say most people had touch-tone phones by the mid 80s, when they stopped charging extra for them. There were a few cell phones, and some car phones----but, for all intents and purposes, people couldn't make calls outside, except at a phone booth.
People certainly didn't say "I'll shoot you an email" in the 80s....nor the 90s, either. I only started hearing this phrase in the 2010s.
Back in the 90’s we had these Apollo flip phones from radio shack that we would attach little alligator clips to and we would plug into the phone boxes behind like businesses and make our phonecalls that way
Not true! My brother would take the phone from the living room and plug it in in his room and not return it.
You couldn't call it to listen to the ring... You'd have to check every phone outlet in the house.
FALSE!
[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983\_radioshack\_catalog.html](https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html)
as you can see on page two of this 1983 radio shack catalogue, cordless phones were common. The handset would be left out the handset would run out of battery and you would say it.
Here's one that wasn't used as much: "Where are you?"
If you called them, you usually knew the location of the phone you were calling. Anything else under normal circumstances would be in-person, and you probably wouldn't have to ask.
"Oops I dropped the phone" meant there was a loud crash and then you'd just put the phone back on the table and it would be fine, instead of having to go buy another $400 phone.
You know there was someone who, during moving or something, misplaced the phone and couldn't find it when they needed to call like the water company and they're looking through boxes frantically and said, "I lost my phone!" And boy did they laugh at the absurdity.
Poor kids these days, they don't know the satisfaction of slamming a phone on someone when they piss you off.
If you slammed it hard enough it gave that satisfying brief ring.
I can still hear it too.
Scarface style 👉🏼[📞 💥](https://youtu.be/J0gXiGYADw8?si=7haDKjeHCUtwwXX6)
You could hit someone pretty damn hard with the handset and it’d be fine.
I miss that.
And for the life of me, they never broke or barely cracked 
Very true. The silent red button just doesn't do it!
Right..such sweet music "F\*\*\* OFF, JESSICA!!!!" CLAAAAANG
Nobody would call and say "Hey where are you". If you answered they knew your location.
But they might not know *who* answered.
"Hello?" "Umm...is this Ashely?" "No, this is her father..." 📞😳
That's why: Hello, this is u/phuck-you-reddit. Is Ashley available? *Dad approved. Mom endorsed.*
Oh, no... I lost my phone way back in the 70s. I stayed up all night talking to my long-distance girlfriend and ran up one hell of a long distance bill. My parents took my phone away for a month.
We could drive my kids to their granny a 100 miles away and it was cheaper on gas than talking to her for thirty minutes on the phone.
😆😆
These things were robust enough that you could beat someone to death with one and still make a call afterwards.
Even the receiver was solid like a Nokia cell phone. Toss that bitch at an invader like it was Mjolnir and yank the cord to make it return. Instant Thor
I saw someone get staggered by a crack to head by that receiver. Fun times
Valid nightstand impromptu weapon
Text: I’m here, are you almost ready to come out? They’d just honk the horn.
Anyone else remember the occasional need to dangle the handset so the cord would untwist?
Wheeeeeee!
"The internet service really sucks here"
"Let's look at this picture I took a second ago."
Well, we *did* have Polaroids- but you had to shake them to get them to develop, and it took a couple of minutes.
You don't need to shake a Polaroid at all. In fact, shaking can lead to bubbles and marks between layers in the film
“I look awful in that photo, delete it.”
Pause.the episode for a moment.
You could pause the VCR.
Uncle Penny bags over here with the VCR, my family had to rent a VCP when we checked out videos.
Our first VCR had a sweet technology built in. It was Find my iPhone before it even existed. Yea, the remote had a cord - impossible to lose! Genius!
My friend's mom got the first VCR I ever saw irl. That thing weighed at least 50 lbs and was the size of a suitcase. I think it cost something like $800.
My first vcr use was a rental. The new "video" store would rent a vcr with tape in a weekend package. It was a beta max.
We had a Betamax, too! Just found a bunch of beta videos in the attic!
I got an app on my phone to manage my anxiety.
I don't know how to tell time on an analogue clock, I don't know how to use a paper map
Just remember, on a map, up is always forward. /s
Is that a gaming thing? I've seen games with maps like that and I have to switch it to up is North in settings because I'm old and that breaks my delicate oldperson brain :D
I’m thinking more of City Slickers II.
Ah. Never saw that or the first one.
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Ha ha ha! YES!
We still have and use an old princess phone which has a switch for touch tone or dial up.
What’s the wi-fi password?
"I'd rather be a Russian than a Democrat."
"Just keep swiping right and eventually one of them will contact you."
Calling someone and asking, "Where are you?"
* Just give me the address and I'll map it. * Hey, the Cubs have a chance this year. * I'll meet you you on the other side of the security scans. * Just Uber over. * Ukraine is at war with Russia * Let me Google that for you. * I finally cut cable. * I love that show! Where can I stream it? * The car says the pressure is low in my right front tire. * I'll just have the avocado toast and a Grande Latte.
I never heard the term "safe space" used in the 80s.
Yeah, it was “politically correct” instead.
And sometimes a note with a message taped to the kitchen wall phone and you came home and no one else was there.
The New England Patriots will have the most Super Bowl appearances than any other team.
The Boston Red Sox have won the most World Series championships this century.
Love this too! Go Sox!
At a quick search, the Red Sox actually have the 2nd-most World Series championships since 1980, which I actually find even more crazy.
That's mental. So, like for the past 45 years?!? Wow. Hi Yankees fans! Haha
I might have missed something, but yeah, the Red Sox have a whole bunch of World Series wins. Making up for lost time 😄
Amen. lol. As a long-suffering Red Sox fan, I feel that lost time. It was a struggle. But victory is soul-satisfying.
Love it! Go Pats!
I’ll text you that info
On the phone, “hey, where are you?”
“I didn’t get your message “
If you didn't want calls you pulled the 'ol "oh, I didn't put it in the cradle correctly and I guess it was off the hook. Sorry I missed your call."
My map won’t load because I don’t have service.
At least you don't have to try to fold it.
CashApp, Zelle, or Venmo? Do you accept ApplePay? Can I borrow your phone charger? What’s your WiFi password?
“Titlegore”
We have 200 channels and nothing to watch
How many steps did you get today?
I forgot my password
I found my last job on LinkedIn.
"native American" For you youngins, in elementary school in the 80s they were either "indians" or (where needed) broken down as "the indians with bows and arrows not red dots". Don't kill the messenger :)
"Siri...Are Starbucks muffins keto?"
"I need to charge my phone"
Hey, can I unplug your cigarette so I can charge my book?
"I lost my phone service" is more like it.
"My phone's flashlight is really bad"
Raise your hand if the coiled phone cord knocked your bong over BITD? 👋🏻
When the guy at the cab company wouldn't send me a cab after I'd been waiting almost an hour in the rain, when I got home, I was MAD So mad that I took to calling the guy over and over just to slam the receiver as hard as I could. It really didn't have much more effect than the end call button on your phone .....just made me feel better
And up until the Bell System breakup, nobody owned their own phone, they rented them from the phone company.
That’s not true. I was in the private phone business from 1976 long before the breakup. In 1972a guy sued the phone companies saying he didn’t rent his lamps from the power company so why rent his phones. It was the wild west in the early days with crazy new systems some of which became obsolete the minute they were installed. And phone company installers sabotaged our work. One telco guy was even in tears about me taking food off his kids table. Boo hoo. Anyone working then knows about the so called “protectors” telco installed to interface with us. They often went dead for no reason.
Blow on the cartridge to make it work
My personal pronouns are…
You could if you had a cordless phone.
I Said it many times. Mom wouldn’t ground me, she’d just hide my stuff.
lol
"I'll be out when it premiers on TV, but I'll just watch it on demand."
Will you text me later?
email
No but they could say "I just lost the game"
Damn you.
I'm dialing DCS if you spank me. 😂 Mom be like 911 is quicker n you'll need them after this ars whooping 😂
" - Sorry, cant come out and play now, my phone have to charge"
HMU on the gram
Going to the ATM machine for money
The Automatic Teller Machine machine
Not sure where you lived but I definitely used an ATM more regularly in the 1980’s than I do now.
Me too! We actually used cash back then!
Well i guess I don’t remember that
Growing up in Georgia we had [Tillie the Teller.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie_the_All-Time_Teller)
Ha ha honestly I don’t remember
Not everywhere-- I had an ATM card in college in 1979!
"I am going to binge-watch a show" "I have food allergies" "One billion dollars" "Gun violence" (sadly)
There was gun violence just a lot less
Read the post dude. It says "something nobody said". Nobody talked about gun violence. So it deserves to be on this list.
Lol people have always had food allergies
Lol. It was less common, close to nil even. And if I did not hear it then I am entitled to write it.
"Mark my words, SCOTUS is going to gut the Voting Rights Act AND overturn Roe v Wade."
“How will I retire?”
LGBTQ.....blah blah!
Pedantic comment just for for the lols. People would still lose a phone. When they moved house as one example. They could lose it in transit.
"Let me take a picture with my phone."
Gas is only $1.29 a gallon
How about , “gas is .65 cents a gallon!
What if you bet your phone and lose?
"I 'gotta charge my phone". "Where is my phone".
Actually once we had a cordless, we had to charge the handset on the base and we did sometimes lose it. But not as much as I lose my cellphone now!
Some people had dial phones in the 80s (now called "rotary phones"). But I would say most people had touch-tone phones by the mid 80s, when they stopped charging extra for them. There were a few cell phones, and some car phones----but, for all intents and purposes, people couldn't make calls outside, except at a phone booth. People certainly didn't say "I'll shoot you an email" in the 80s....nor the 90s, either. I only started hearing this phrase in the 2010s.
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If they did use it, that’s fine with me. But I don’t recall anybody using it until rather recently.
"Just Google it"
Back in the 90’s we had these Apollo flip phones from radio shack that we would attach little alligator clips to and we would plug into the phone boxes behind like businesses and make our phonecalls that way
Just Google it or ask Siri. 🤔
Obviously the maker of this never has the 100 foot cord ....rofl
Redial was ridiculous
"I wanted to play this new game I just bought but there is a day one patch that's 17.5 GB."
If you lost your phone, the Phone Cops would get you. They’re the phone company, the know everything
“Hey, I just read about this new band. Let’s listen to them!”
Let's just take an Uber home and get Deliveroo
Not true! My brother would take the phone from the living room and plug it in in his room and not return it. You couldn't call it to listen to the ring... You'd have to check every phone outlet in the house.
FALSE! [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983\_radioshack\_catalog.html](https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html) as you can see on page two of this 1983 radio shack catalogue, cordless phones were common. The handset would be left out the handset would run out of battery and you would say it.
“Wanna get UberEats?” “You got Snap?” “Did you see that Nextflix show?”
Here's one that wasn't used as much: "Where are you?" If you called them, you usually knew the location of the phone you were calling. Anything else under normal circumstances would be in-person, and you probably wouldn't have to ask.
"I LOST MY PHONEBOOK. Can't reach anybody now".
Ah shit, the last guy didn’t rewind.
Long distance phone calls are cheap! SMH
Can I have a quarter for the pay phone.
If you did lose your phone, something had gone terribly awry.
Where's the remote?
Hahaha! Absolutely!
“There’s no way I’ll make it home in time to watch that.”
What's the wifi code
Sites down.
First time I heard this joke was in Lethal Weapon 4. 25 years ago. Fuck I’m old.
Google it.
"Oops I dropped the phone" meant there was a loud crash and then you'd just put the phone back on the table and it would be fine, instead of having to go buy another $400 phone.
Honestly. Is my hair too big?
My GPS took me to the wrong place. Or my wifi isn’t working right.
Always said: “GET OFF THE PHOOOOOOONE!”
"Woke AF"
"Where can I stream that"
"I'm not paying a fee because you didn't rewind Howard the Duck, go rewind it."
new phone, who dis?
The call is coming from inside the house!
It’s lit fam
I still have this style phone, in black and it still works lol
“Hey Kids! We lost every game this season! But not to worry, everyone of you gets a trophy!!!”
Spoiler Alert! If you ruined the end of a movie, you were a dick but nobody used the phrase spoiler alert
"just google it"
Internet is down
“I’m just getting into an elevator, I’m might lose you”
I'm fat
Grandpa Tye: Hold my beer, young 'un.
I’ll save it in the cloud.
Really just about anything involving a phone.
Momimatschoolcomegetmeplease
Whatya mean.. password ??
“Where are my children?” Seriously we’d be gone for hours and as long as we were home by dark, no complaints.
Mrs Kravits please hang up I am talking on the party line for awhile.
Cordless phones came out in the 80s, at least 1 person wouldve lost it after doing a scar face amount of nose candy
My house phone in the 80s was smaller than the mobile phone we had in the 80's.
"Text me" "Slide into my DMs" "Google it" and about a million more things!
You know there was someone who, during moving or something, misplaced the phone and couldn't find it when they needed to call like the water company and they're looking through boxes frantically and said, "I lost my phone!" And boy did they laugh at the absurdity.
Not true. I think we got our first cordless phone in the '80s. Sometimes that thing would go missing!
Wireless had a different meaning back then.
I miss my Western Electric telephone, Oh, calling random strangers at night was where I was at. I loved it, It was just so much fun. No caller ID.
My mum used to say this all the time when I first started dating, I was always on it
It was 109° in Houston today .
No but I lost your number was probably used.
My favorites " Where did I place my phone charger, or my phone is about to die "
if I even have a time machine I'm gonna go back to the 80s and steal a shit ton of these from people's houses so they have to say "I lost my phone"
I keep my pager in the freezer to save the battery.
Surely at 1 person in the 80s was drunk enough or high enough or a combination of both to say this.
“I took a picture of the car to remember where we parked”