When old people tell you about "the good old days" and how great things used to be

Those things were great. You could make a phone call from almost anywhere without having to carry around a radio tracking device all the time.

Check in every few hours. Call collect with quick allgoodgoingtoJoes. Then parents decline the collect call.

Reminds me of the commercial, “bobhadababyitsaboy”

When I was a kid, this was my time machine, Dude.

good luck playing Minecraft on that

Beepers were all the rage when I was in high school. Beeper goes off, look at the number and decide if you want to call it back. Different codes for different friends. Then scramble to find a payphone if you wanted to call someone back.

“Your foster parents are dead.”

in my early childhood phones (not smart) where so common that i could ask strangers in the train: can i please call my mom?
And they gave it to me because i was a child

Just dial down the middle! C-A-L-L-A-T-T

Truly some excellent adventures were had in those boxes.

and time machine

Around here we still have them, and they provide free wifi. My home is almost close enough to pick up the signal from one in the main street.

They made excellent toilets.

Those were the days

Straight up though the world peaked in the 2007-2010 in terms of culture. Everything has just gotten significantly worse since then and I feel bad for the zoomers and gen alpha who have to grow up in the 2020s

Actually It's a stationary phone not mobile phone 🤓