Life Before Touchscreen Phones for Ladies

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Please excuse this crude first post and introduction, I'm terrible with history and rushing to launch this thread



We used to read books, newspapers, and magazines. Go to bookstores, newspaper stands, and libraries. Listen to the radio, play records, cassettes. and 8-track tapes, even CDs. Go to record stores. The rotary telephone was replaced with touch-tone phones, then cordless phones. We'd watch television which received signal form rooftop antenna, then cable TV. Watched and recorded movies and TV shows on videocassettes on the VCR. The Personal Computer began popularity during the 80's, then in the 90's using a dial-up modem we accessed BBS' on the net, later the web, and around 2000 began using high speed broadband internet access. There were mobile phones, then (so called) smartphones, and then...


... sixteen years ago next week, the touchscreen phone was introduced, which began combining some of the previous devices and services, and changed people's lives.


... an iPod, a phone, and an internet communicator.
These are not three separate devices. This is one device.
And we are calling it iPhone
Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone
And here it is

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video with audio
Steve Jobs introduces iPhone Tu Jan 9, 2007 - 0:28
https://i.imgur.com/9d9VSBv.mp4



And that's this thread, the devices we had and services we used that were eventually replaced using a touchscreen phone.

I've enjoyed and had fun collecting photos, also occasionally cause me to feel old remembering these now (basically) obsolete and defunct things.



BTW, wasn't going to include, "... for Ladies" in the thread's name, that is until guys posts during recent few weeks showing they only care about themselves with their hetero posts.
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I'll respect the only for ladies thread. I had a quick look and absolutely love it. What a great idea! I'm a total nostalgic and loathe the era of the phone as an exclusive communication and media connection device. I absolutely loved the world that I was so very lucky to be young and footloose in. Traveling all over the world visiting the museums, libraries, book stores. Or sitting on a park bench in the south west of France and testing my french skills on a the Medi Olympique newspaper, maybe drawing a picture of the view in my sketch book...haha...great memories file in. Enjoy this thread...on your phones..lol, the irony is thick. I hope that it inspires you to head out for a walk in a public park and strike up a conversation with an interesting looking character or perhaps pick up an old, tattered Daniel Steele with a missing cover and lick your finger each time you turn the page🤌😁🌹🥂⚔️⚔️
 
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