Suck it up until I reach 2003 and retire from the US Navy and retain my Tricare Prime health care which was the only reason I've been able to retire in 2023 instead of working until I die?
I built a house in '91 with 66% down payment, and 9% interest. Because I was a woman, I had a hell of a time getting approved for that loan despite a job I'd held for 20+ years and a perfect credit score. I refinanced three years later and paid the house off in 8 years. BTW, in '95, I had a computer, cell phone (Nokia!), and dial-up Internet (AOL).
My Dad’s hobby was collecting share certificates. He would buy one share of famous companies, get the certificate framed, and hang them up in his home office. He bought one share of Apple in about 1992 and today it’s a significant chunk of his retirement fund.
Invest in Apple and Intel, get BIG payouts, use funds to gain controlling stock in major Game's companies, Blizzard, Squaresoft, etc. Prevent enshittification.
Have to wait until 2009 to start up your bitcoin farming. In 1995 some good stocks are Berkshire-Hathaway, any oil stock (Exxon, Mobil, Conoco, etc), several of the already mentioned tech stocks; consider also Monster Beverage Corp, Fair Isaac Corp, and NVIDIA. https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/best-performing-stocks-past-30-years
The first stock I looked up when I read a teenager was Apple. And we had an apple computer. I thought to myself " I would invest money into this company.... They have a *MOUSE*". it was 5$/ share at the time
Depends on if I'm me now, or the same as I was back then. If me now, then get a quick job and put money in the stock market for little me. If I'm a child, but with the knowledge I have now, first I would see if my grandma would take me in, and if not, try my hardest to get taken away by CPS. It sucks but I definitely deserved to be taken from my mom lol
Katrina wiped out an entire city full of poor people who couldn't afford to evacuate, and then Bush deployed the US Military to oppress and murder those same poor people while offering them basically nothing in return.
Technically it was the local police departments like NOPD, Jefferson, & Gretna that were doing the murdering. The National Guard was just turning a blind eye to everything going on, including the folks at the Convention Center dying because they didn't have any resources whatsoever. W made it rain money like he was at a Bourbon Street Strip club but most of it was gobbled up by the corrupt local governments and Texas contractors.
No, the National Guard also participated, at least according to members of the National Guard who've made public claims after the fact of firing upon US citizens they described as "looters"
The apartment I lived in. My landlords stayed until the National Guard told them they would drag them out & shoot their dogs about a month in so they left (because they would have shot back). We were back after Halloween. Most of my NOPD customers said they were trading food & booze to the Guard for ammo because the Guard were specifically ordered "No shooting" very early on. Though I can believe a few got trigger happy.
95? I can outwork every human alive. I've developed an inhuman grip on my boot straps, pulling with a force that could pry the earth from the sun's gravitic grasp as is required to survive in 25. I'll make my own AI powered skynet variant to stop all this nonsense from happening with my knowledge of drones, programming and 3d printers. I'll even have time to frost my tips and see limp Bizkit play break stuff for the first time and make billions betting against Y2K being the apocalypse.
Bonus: you get to "Edge of Tomorrow"/"Groundhog Day" your mission - over multiple years - you can keep going back and adding to your list until you 'get it right'.
I imagine even the least interested in sports people could name the odd superstar and you can bet on teenagers winning major tournaments at some point in their lives. Or you could bet on elections or stocks is just betting on companies.
Well my parents were able to buy a house and have two kids and a ski boat in their twenties with no college degree, now the housing in the same city has skyrocketed so hi that I have friends going in on houses together just to afford a house and they have college degrees. I have a veterinarian friend who can't even afford a house and has roommates sooooooo
I could have bought a 3 bedroom house for $50000 in 1998. In St. Petersburg, Florida. A friend bought one while he was a part time pizza delivery driver. He put down $2000. He found out, he could have put down less.
I worked in mortgage for a number of years and while the mortgages weren't shocking, the interest rates on them were. I saw mortgages that I could swear were worse deals than just buying a house with a credit card lol.
A friend of mine's dad bought, along with his wife, 1 house and 3 brand new 60-80 square meter appartments in the middle of Oslo, Norway, city center in the late 90s on their newfound computer engineer master degree and architect bachelor degree. Sure they were decently educated, but you can't even buy a single apartment as newly educated couple without massive financial help from family etc today. Each of those appartment was bought for about 25k $, and recently sold for between 600-780k $
(And as a p.s. I'm still trying to think what *was* cheap in the 1990s. All household goods, clothes and suchlike were at least 3-4 times more expensive relative to wages than they are nowadays: e.g. a decentish pair of jeans in the UK can be bought nowadays for about half the price - *actual* money - than I was paying in the mid-late 1990s.)
For sure. In the 70's you could still get a house for a fraction of real wages, but the interest rates were bonkers. If you go back to the 50's or 60's, you could get beach front property in Los Angeles for the price of a corvette. All those families are rich now.
Econowoe works against the incumbent, so I fully support spreading it now. Economics lessons suspended until they're in service of a government that is worth defending.
My parents house was 80k back in 1979, and now it's being sold for 3,5 million. Yes interest was higher but you could just fucking save money for a few years and then be free from it. Or live on a rock for a few years to your pay caught up with it. It was so much easier back then
my own place is about 8 times more worth than back in 95 and it's in a slow region. Same shit. Considering i wrote the year of theirs then maybe you can guess if i know or not. Or maybe i just thought you were too dense to realize without. Not that it helped, did it?
Yeah, ditto for the UK. There was *no* minimum wage there in 1995. When that was introduced in 1999 that was £3/hr if you were 18-21 and £3.60/hr if you were over 22 - £5,675 & £6,810 per year respectively. The average house cost was around £75,000; 11x - 13x the minimum wage.
For 21+ nowadays that's £23,100 vs. £268,000; 11.6x the minimum wage.
I had "internet" -- that is, we could connect to AOL/Prodigy. But cell phones were right out. Are you sure you're thinking the right year? I hate for you to realize that you're older than you think, but...I got my first cell phone around 2001/2002, and it was hardly something everyone had.
The first kid I knew at our school that had cell phone got it when we were in 8th grade, so that was in 1998. By 2000 they were so common that every one in my cohort had one.
I am, and I had home internet in 1995. AOL ftw. Cell phones were still stupid expensive though. But the original commenter missed the point that dial up internet is not anywhere close to comparable to wifi.
I bought my first phone a star tac in high school I was 16 I'd had multiple jobs at a time since I was nine. I mowed lawns had a paper route helped a painting company paint buildings in the summer all before I turned 13. I thought cell phones are the coolest thing so I bought one.
The 2110 and 2010 came out in 1994. Ericsson had similarly-sized and -priced models but I can't remember the numbers. By 1995 you had the fucking RinGo.
Before 2000 wasn't the dark ages: the dot-com bust was that year. Cell phone in 1990/91 here + internet connection at home a year or so later, following on from BBSs. (Cost per minute was ouchworthy...) That was after university in the late 1980s using Sun Workstations (email, etc.) where the junior honours project was an OCR system using simulated neural nets followed by a distributed hypertext system in senior year (same year as Berners-Lee but he was right; protocol first, system later. : )
Cell phones were all over the place in 1995. I had a summer job in a phone store in 1994 and we sold handheld Motorola and Ericsson phones. It was the era of bag phones and installed car phones, but the handhelds were starting to take off.
Apparently so. Where did you live? Suburban Chicago here. It certainly wasn't like today where everyone has one, and I didn't personally have a phone until 1997. But we sold the original Motorola MicroTAC flip phone and an even tinier Ericsson phone in 1994.
Nokia 1011 was released in 1993 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1011), so even GSM phones were already available. How widespread their use was, now that's a whole another kettle of fish.
Technically possible, yes, but 90s (portable) cell phones came in bags larger than contemporary purses and weighed 16 lbs. They were owned by New York stock traders, coke dealers, and world leaders; that's about it.
enderite
Save up, become an expert with a non English language, and get out ahead of time. We’ve been on this course for decades.
Ababybunny
Rent a console at Blockbuster and order a pizza
manyslayer
Go get back my black lotus (magic card, now around $9,400) that I traded for a glasses of urza (now $1.25).
Ranb40
Suck it up until I reach 2003 and retire from the US Navy and retain my Tricare Prime health care which was the only reason I've been able to retire in 2023 instead of working until I die?
FredGarvinMaleProstitute
buy stock in Yahoo! at $13 a share
MaleProstateMilker88
What's wrong with that water hose? Is this an ai image?
MapleSyrupMafia
Cameras didn't exist back then, so we have to use AI to recreate scenes from that far away time. /s
Kats8652
Yeah, licence plate is all screwy too.
SeenItDoneIt
You are all gentle souls. I would perform a Luigi and save us all from our current crisis.
BullittGT
SuperfluousMeh
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1N2Q5ajhmaWI3M2h0YmZ6ajVsNDRpOThwODJ1ZmxscmxmbXcybWdrbyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/yoJC2A59OCZHs1LXvW/200w.webp
ProfFurryPaws
Dr Sam Beckett could have crashed that taxi.
sowhat4
I built a house in '91 with 66% down payment, and 9% interest. Because I was a woman, I had a hell of a time getting approved for that loan despite a job I'd held for 20+ years and a perfect credit score. I refinanced three years later and paid the house off in 8 years. BTW, in '95, I had a computer, cell phone (Nokia!), and dial-up Internet (AOL).
johnvictor
Invest in Apple and Intel stock with said loose change!
thelatebillstickers
My Dad’s hobby was collecting share certificates. He would buy one share of famous companies, get the certificate framed, and hang them up in his home office. He bought one share of Apple in about 1992 and today it’s a significant chunk of his retirement fund.
ElChupaNuggra
Invest in Apple and Intel, get BIG payouts, use funds to gain controlling stock in major Game's companies, Blizzard, Squaresoft, etc. Prevent enshittification.
ahnteis
Grab a couple of bitcoins.
Kyzyl
Have to wait until 2009 to start up your bitcoin farming. In 1995 some good stocks are Berkshire-Hathaway, any oil stock (Exxon, Mobil, Conoco, etc), several of the already mentioned tech stocks; consider also Monster Beverage Corp, Fair Isaac Corp, and NVIDIA.
https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/best-performing-stocks-past-30-years
ahnteis
I can wait :D But you're correct, I had timing wrong
InsaneInThePlantain365
Don’t forget about AOL stock… was the best one to own for a few years there
GuyPilot
The first stock I looked up when I read a teenager was Apple. And we had an apple computer. I thought to myself " I would invest money into this company.... They have a *MOUSE*". it was 5$/ share at the time
StabbyMcMurder
Depends on if I'm me now, or the same as I was back then. If me now, then get a quick job and put money in the stock market for little me. If I'm a child, but with the knowledge I have now, first I would see if my grandma would take me in, and if not, try my hardest to get taken away by CPS. It sucks but I definitely deserved to be taken from my mom lol
skywhisker
I also want to know if it's me now or me as I was then. Because I wasn't even born then. My parents weren't even together at that time
GasBandit
I'd get ready to buy Yahoo's IPO in 1996
NATA5
Tell my dad to stop being stupid with money and invest in Apple, amazon, Microsoft etc.
JayEnfield
Microsoft did great in the late 90s. Apple spent 95 to 98 shitting the bed, and THEN gets good.
hfctom
Quit college, go get my ASE Certifications instead. Tattoo "Do not move to New Orleans" on my forearm so I don't fucking forget.
Ardilla05
New Orleans is, by far, one of the most overrated places i have ever been to in my life.
CaptSchmidtGaming
do not develop his app
downwiththesystem
"Who hurt you?"
The entirety of New Orleans, I guess.
blaghart
Katrina wiped out an entire city full of poor people who couldn't afford to evacuate, and then Bush deployed the US Military to oppress and murder those same poor people while offering them basically nothing in return.
hfctom
Technically it was the local police departments like NOPD, Jefferson, & Gretna that were doing the murdering. The National Guard was just turning a blind eye to everything going on, including the folks at the Convention Center dying because they didn't have any resources whatsoever. W made it rain money like he was at a Bourbon Street Strip club but most of it was gobbled up by the corrupt local governments and Texas contractors.
blaghart
No, the National Guard also participated, at least according to members of the National Guard who've made public claims after the fact of firing upon US citizens they described as "looters"
hfctom
The apartment I lived in. My landlords stayed until the National Guard told them they would drag them out & shoot their dogs about a month in so they left (because they would have shot back). We were back after Halloween. Most of my NOPD customers said they were trading food & booze to the Guard for ammo because the Guard were specifically ordered "No shooting" very early on. Though I can believe a few got trigger happy.
StuckintheVoid
wake up, cry, and shit myself because I'm 2
backrideup9
Jerk off to get some post-nut clarity. Then make a list and find an investment professional.
MagmaCarta
Go to Atlantic City and tell someone how to properly run a casino so they stay in the business and don't end up on reality TV
SuperfluousMeh
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1NXdjOGtkcGZjcXMxaTljdWRsYXhoMzFlYnVod20zN25ndnVmMzF0cSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/I4Jmrcjnr8Zfq/200w.webp
unluckyandbored
Better idea: Convince a mob family he owes them a shitload of money and let the problem solve itself.
MassiveKy
95? I can outwork every human alive. I've developed an inhuman grip on my boot straps, pulling with a force that could pry the earth from the sun's gravitic grasp as is required to survive in 25. I'll make my own AI powered skynet variant to stop all this nonsense from happening with my knowledge of drones, programming and 3d printers. I'll even have time to frost my tips and see limp Bizkit play break stuff for the first time and make billions betting against Y2K being the apocalypse.
1potsie
Get dressed because I am assuming I was in bed sleeping, and back then, it was commando style
Jandegrote
Don't go to school get a job invest in Apple win big invest it all into Bitcoin / Nvidia and roll in a endless piles of cash.
TsubakiTragic
buy gold, apple stocks and don't go to the USA
thepicklebucket
It was already too late by then.
ThatHurts
But you could readily make yourself enough money to be part of the problem :D
EggFooYung
Full Terminator mode. The Zuck was only 11. The original Twitter twats were still in high school or college.
Kyzyl
Bonus: you get to "Edge of Tomorrow"/"Groundhog Day" your mission - over multiple years - you can keep going back and adding to your list until you 'get it right'.
sonomarco
The price of something is only relevant in comparison to wages. First house I bought cost $16,000 and I could barely afford it.
iamthemanwithnoname
Probably go place a few bets. There's this Stanford kid who seems pretty good a Golf, I bet he'll win a major or two.
xmaneds
a BLACK guy playing GOLF? my Gawd!!.... yes, you would win a lot of those bets that you place :)
johnxbear
I would be so mad if i went back because I don't follow sports so any betting would literally just be like regular guess betting.
onecowboytoo
Obviously take a sports almanac with you.
iamthemanwithnoname
I imagine even the least interested in sports people could name the odd superstar and you can bet on teenagers winning major tournaments at some point in their lives. Or you could bet on elections or stocks is just betting on companies.
jacketyjack
Fire up my pentium and play some Command & Conquer
HunglikeaHamster
Throw that bitch out before she cheated on me..
acetothermus
If you knew then what you know now. Ouch.
Piscivore
Get a vasectomy and a prostate checkup.
Thesaya
Find my mum and hug her.
RevolutionOnHerLips
wholesome
Thesaya
Well, she died when I was 18, and I am still processing it at 38, not sure how wholesome that is. XD
RevolutionOnHerLips
it's sad, but you have good priorities I think
DocFunkenstein
It's cute that people think houses were cheap in the 90s. Cheaper than now, sure, but laughable to think they were as cheap as this is implying.
The 80s is when the insanity begin.
Imademyselfsquirtle
Ugh. My parents bought a house in 1994 for 90k the same house is now selling for 700k.
eleanorugby
I believe what we are dealing with here is a literary technique called "hyperbole"
Covidien8768
Well my parents were able to buy a house and have two kids and a ski boat in their twenties with no college degree, now the housing in the same city has skyrocketed so hi that I have friends going in on houses together just to afford a house and they have college degrees. I have a veterinarian friend who can't even afford a house and has roommates sooooooo
orp0piru
Covidien8768
How dare you come at this with facts /s
DexPumpkinGod
Facts are data. That there is a far too fast animation.
chad0692
Thanks Reagan
thedarkcanuck
Our memories are clouded by our nostalgia. Sure, life was simpler, but we were children. The world was still far from perfect.
Frankasti
My parents bought a house in 1999. The house is now worth 4x more than what they paid for. That's in Canada.
Psyskwr
rusrsdude
https://www.huduser.gov/periodicals/ushmc/winter2001/histdat08.htm
People could use this as a comparison just need the minimum wage stats and we're good
martineb72
I could have bought a 3 bedroom house for $50000 in 1998. In St. Petersburg, Florida. A friend bought one while he was a part time pizza delivery driver. He put down $2000. He found out, he could have put down less.
historycat
You have to pick the right house.
Which areas were crap in the 90s that have been gentrified since?
RevolutionOnHerLips
I worked in mortgage for a number of years and while the mortgages weren't shocking, the interest rates on them were. I saw mortgages that I could swear were worse deals than just buying a house with a credit card lol.
usingYourMomAsAHat
A friend of mine's dad bought, along with his wife, 1 house and 3 brand new 60-80 square meter appartments in the middle of Oslo, Norway, city center in the late 90s on their newfound computer engineer master degree and architect bachelor degree. Sure they were decently educated, but you can't even buy a single apartment as newly educated couple without massive financial help from family etc today. Each of those appartment was bought for about 25k $, and recently sold for between 600-780k $
faro2000
(And as a p.s. I'm still trying to think what *was* cheap in the 1990s. All household goods, clothes and suchlike were at least 3-4 times more expensive relative to wages than they are nowadays: e.g. a decentish pair of jeans in the UK can be bought nowadays for about half the price - *actual* money - than I was paying in the mid-late 1990s.)
crazyspelling
For sure. In the 70's you could still get a house for a fraction of real wages, but the interest rates were bonkers. If you go back to the 50's or 60's, you could get beach front property in Los Angeles for the price of a corvette. All those families are rich now.
emu314159127001
My dad bought a house in the 70s, which admittedly had very high interest rates, and his payment was 435 a month. Not cheap in the 70s
gesel
Econowoe works against the incumbent, so I fully support spreading it now. Economics lessons suspended until they're in service of a government that is worth defending.
Jimmah1
My parents bought their house in 95 for 20k.
DorkJedi
My grandparents bought their 3 bedroom in a good location in 1974. It cost $7500. The neighbor's house- very similar, sold in 1986 for 70000
Mohareb
My parents house was 80k back in 1979, and now it's being sold for 3,5 million. Yes interest was higher but you could just fucking save money for a few years and then be free from it. Or live on a rock for a few years to your pay caught up with it. It was so much easier back then
DocFunkenstein
You do know that 1979 wasn't in the 90s, right?
Jesus Christ...
Mohareb
my own place is about 8 times more worth than back in 95 and it's in a slow region. Same shit. Considering i wrote the year of theirs then maybe you can guess if i know or not. Or maybe i just thought you were too dense to realize without. Not that it helped, did it?
faro2000
Yeah, ditto for the UK. There was *no* minimum wage there in 1995.
When that was introduced in 1999 that was £3/hr if you were 18-21 and £3.60/hr if you were over 22 - £5,675 & £6,810 per year respectively.
The average house cost was around £75,000; 11x - 13x the minimum wage.
For 21+ nowadays that's £23,100 vs. £268,000; 11.6x the minimum wage.
RedDeadPrevention
100%. And this photo looks closer to the 70s than the 90s.
bad1080
picture is ai generated, look at the hose or the license plate
RedDeadPrevention
Ok... 100%. And this AI-generated image looks closer to the 70s than the 90s.
Rips4w
You telling me your garden hose doesnt exist in several dimensions at once, both tangible and intangible, simultaneously 50 feet and 300 feet? Psh...
jeejeejerrycotton
I had a cell phone and an Internet connection at home in 1995. Most people I know tended to.
NaughtyGod1
We were one of the first AT&T Cable internet customers & I found out they were routing SMB locally, so you could view EVERY CUSTOMERS shares
NaughtyGod1
I remember sending TONS of print jobs & copying every file I could find. Most were just pictures or saved HTML pages.
xmaneds
no Wi-Fi though
OkButWhyWereTheyFilming
I think we had just gotten our first answering machine around 1995.
jeejeejerrycotton
I got my first answering machine around 2002 in think?
UprootedGrunt
I had "internet" -- that is, we could connect to AOL/Prodigy. But cell phones were right out. Are you sure you're thinking the right year? I hate for you to realize that you're older than you think, but...I got my first cell phone around 2001/2002, and it was hardly something everyone had.
BullittGT
https://www.mobilephonehistory.co.uk/lists/by_year.html
UprootedGrunt
To be fair, I lived in Maine in 1995. Even when I went back years later, cell service was spotty to non-existent.
But I don't think cells really became ubiquitous until the mid 2000s. Present, sure, but certainly not everywhere.
henryvk
The first kid I knew at our school that had cell phone got it when we were in 8th grade, so that was in 1998. By 2000 they were so common that every one in my cohort had one.
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
You rich
HUGHgReaction
Are you in Canada?
ReaperNo1
I am, and I had home internet in 1995. AOL ftw. Cell phones were still stupid expensive though. But the original commenter missed the point that dial up internet is not anywhere close to comparable to wifi.
jeejeejerrycotton
No; should I be?
HUGHgReaction
I just found in the early days of the internet, canada got connected quicker. Just what I thought though, nothing to back that up.
NationalistCanadianMooseWarrior
Yes
jeejeejerrycotton
I am the man of bilberry.
HUGHgReaction
Lol
Anysource
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drGrafenberg
Sweden?
xmaneds
perhaps FINLAND! Nokia, Ericsson
drGrafenberg
Yea, Österbotten is also an alternative!
WhatSayYouCitizen
I find it extremely difficult to believe you had a cellular phone in 1995. Maybe a landline with radio handset, but a cell phone?
goatyfacemcgee
I bought my first phone a star tac in high school I was 16 I'd had multiple jobs at a time since I was nine. I mowed lawns had a paper route helped a painting company paint buildings in the summer all before I turned 13. I thought cell phones are the coolest thing so I bought one.
drGrafenberg
94-95, mobile phone. Before that it was the NMT450 since like 1987-88.
jeejeejerrycotton
The 2110 and 2010 came out in 1994. Ericsson had similarly-sized and -priced models but I can't remember the numbers. By 1995 you had the fucking RinGo.
PacManDreaming
Yes, I had a cellular bag phone in the early '90s(around '92 or '93). Motorola started making them in 1988.
faro2000
Before 2000 wasn't the dark ages: the dot-com bust was that year. Cell phone in 1990/91 here + internet connection at home a year or so later, following on from BBSs. (Cost per minute was ouchworthy...)
That was after university in the late 1980s using Sun Workstations (email, etc.) where the junior honours project was an OCR system using simulated neural nets followed by a distributed hypertext system in senior year (same year as Berners-Lee but he was right; protocol first, system later. : )
drGrafenberg
Sunet!
NaughtyGod1
My girlfriend at the time (high school) had a Motorola MicroTAC 950. Her parents WERE 90's wealthy, but not rich. It was 'for emergencies'
bottledham
Cell phones were all over the place in 1995. I had a summer job in a phone store in 1994 and we sold handheld Motorola and Ericsson phones. It was the era of bag phones and installed car phones, but the handhelds were starting to take off.
WhatSayYouCitizen
You and I remember cell phones in '95 very differently.
bottledham
Apparently so. Where did you live? Suburban Chicago here. It certainly wasn't like today where everyone has one, and I didn't personally have a phone until 1997. But we sold the original Motorola MicroTAC flip phone and an even tinier Ericsson phone in 1994.
DotNot
Nokia 1011 was released in 1993 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_1011), so even GSM phones were already available. How widespread their use was, now that's a whole another kettle of fish.
YouMayFindThisMildlyInteresting
People definitely had cell phones in 1995. People were moving onto GSM by then, you could text.
jeejeejerrycotton
xmaneds
thanks!
drGrafenberg
Ericsson 337 kid myself.
VodkaReindeer
divide by about 6 to get dollar/euro amount
Regeny
2G GSM started in 1990 so it's technically possible.
jeejeejerrycotton
NMT-900 was set up in 1987. Of course the phones were huge back then. Well, the batteries were.
drGrafenberg
Yes, byGSM standards.
WhatSayYouCitizen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxg-PSsfqSI
WhatSayYouCitizen
Technically possible, yes, but 90s (portable) cell phones came in bags larger than contemporary purses and weighed 16 lbs. They were owned by New York stock traders, coke dealers, and world leaders; that's about it.
drGrafenberg
I don’t know about your networks, but we had them for almost everyone from 85-86
drGrafenberg
So? No comment? Just ignorance?
jeejeejerrycotton
Hmm, no.
Regeny
While I appreciate short and easy answers, yours is a bit too short.