• Dasnap@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    18-year-old me when a virtual cat repeated what I said

    Smartphones came out at a really weird time for me. I was too young to be able to afford one but too old for parents to think I needed anything more than a flip-phone. Meanwhile, kids 5 years younger than me were getting them by default once they started secondary school.

    Managed to afford an iPod Touch eventually.

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      8 months ago

      You can be disappointed you didn’t get a smartphone while simultaneously not expecting one. Anyone who says different is too basic to have multiple feelings at once, or just an idiot.

      The razor phone came out when I was in highschool, I didn’t like flip phones and when my parents decided to drop the land-line and go with a cheaper family phone plan I got a pretty simple brick that could play mp3s with a dedicated external speaker, and could tune into radio frequencies with headphones. I thought that was neat.

      I got my first smartphone in 2013 or somewhere around there.