RE: Let's taste the real world, but without the mobile phone - WEEK 183
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In the time you write about, 25 years ago, when the Nokia 5110 was current, it was prestigious to have a mobile phone and only those who needed it for work or those whose parents could afford $1000 or more had it.
The first Nokia that I held in my hands and spoke from it (take a look at my post, there is a picture), it cost with a SIM card about 10000DM (German mark, later replaced with 1/2 Euro), which means about $5000. That phone was owned by my friend's father, the owner of a private company... At that time children aged 5-15 certainly could not have this gadget.
And they didn't even need it, who would they call with it when it wasn't in mass use. And there were no other games on it besides "Snakes"🙂
The phone pictured was the second phone I had when I was in high school and, yes, I remember if you wanted to talk on it, it cost a fortune.
So off topic, the mobile phone subscription I have now I signed up for in 2015 as of this year I have the same phone number only the benefits of the subscriptions have changed tremendously.
I don't remember how much my parents paid for this phone, but I don't think it cost that much, during the communist period here in Romania you couldn't really get that much money.
And yes, there wasn't much to talk to, phones were pretty scarce.
Have a wonderful Sunday.
My parents never bought me a mobile phone. All the mobile phones I had, I bought myself, some used and remanufactured, some new, as I could...
Even I always bought phones for my parents 😀
For my number, which I have had since 2001, the package is increased with each contract, and I am also looking for increased internet packages...
Neighbor from Romania, we look across the Danube 👋
Didn't communism "go away" with the hanging of Causesku? In our country it fell apart with the collapse of YU in 1991...
I was too young to buy a cell phone myself, I mean I wasn't working because I was in high school.
I am glad to see that we are neighbours as countries.
Yes here in Romania with the fall of Ceausescu and communism disappeared but since then the new world started which in my opinion is a total failure, I mean I don't like the direction Romania has taken.
The whole world is going in some strange direction, so is your country and mine... But mine especially, led by corrupt and politicians with bad foreign policy...
Romania has no shortage of corrupt politicians either and there is no point in going into details, in conclusion I do not see a good direction.
I live in hope that maybe someday we will get back to normal.
Have a wonderful week ahead.