if mobile phones were around in the "old days"

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imagine that mobile phones were around in days gone by, like when you were a kid or whenever. how would yr life be different? what improvements or disadvantages would it have brought you?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

fairly mundane one: in my student days I got fed up with trying to find my tutor to ask questions, esp when doing my degree project. it was annoying to walk into town to find he wasn't in his office. It would have been nice to be able to ring his office to see if he was there. this may sound fairly inconsequential, but I remember it being important at the time.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:00 (twenty-two years ago)

.. whereas nowadays he'd just leave his mobile at home/uncharged...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I was talking about phoning the landline in his office. But yeah. It was weird going back to Bristol after an absence of a number of years and seeing students striding across the Doens to their halls all busily txting away as they did so...nothing weird about the fact in tself, but it was all about context - everything was the same as it ever was EXCEPT THAT.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Downs.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Presumably you mean you could have phoned HIM from YOUR mobile? I mean, I work in a university and no tutor would EVER give out their mobby number to a student.

oh xpost

I think my university life would have been impoverished, as to make social arrangements while living in halls we had to just pop round to see each other and hope someone was around. Usually someone was and you could get a cup of tea out of it and perhaps bump into other people and talk about the meaning of life and all that student crap. You can't get a cup of tea from a text message.

I don't think I would have been allowed one when I was a child.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

no, you'd have burnt your gob.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think my tutor would have given me his mobile number.

if i had a mobile phone when i was young i prlly wd rite f3thing lik dis. and would have gotten a **** with this girl i fancied and possibly ****ed her ****, through text seduction david beckham style.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

hehe i actually used to think adults were soooo sad when i was little, because it took them about 5 times as long as me to drink a drink. i obviously didn't catch on to the idea of hot beverages til later...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember having a particularly hopeless student Maths teacher at my first year at secondary school. RG, DH and I used to sit at the back and write notes to each other in a tiny notebook which we'd pass to each other. eventually (after several weeks iirc) we were found out and it was confiscated, but if we'd had mobiles possibly we would've been undetected if they were on silent and we may even have been able to involve the ENTIRE CLASS.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Mobile phones suck actually don't they?

I expect my kids are going to hate me as I will probably still not have a TV and won't want them to have a phone.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Archel's kid: "Mummy, Mummy I want a phone!"

(Archel fetches string, blunt nosed scissors and empty cocoa tins from cupboard)

"There you are dear, make yr own".

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)

If mobile phones were around in 1854, then Lord Lucan could simply have phoned Lord Raglan to ask him to rescind his order to attack, since the Russians had a battery in the valley and batteries and riflemen on each flank, and any attack was bound to be disastrous. In which case, Lord Cardigan would never have ridden into the valley of death with the 600, and the world would be a very different place today. And all because they didn't have mobiles.

― an historian, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

but lord cardigan would never have got the message on his phone cos the russians had all the batteries

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Those of you who have seen my mobile phone may well surmise that it was in fact created using the above method...

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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