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I got my first phone in 1998. It was a nokia 8110, aka the 'banana phone'.
I got my first computer in 1989. It was a Commodore VIC-20. I still have it. 5kB of RAM should be enough for everyone.
We had a Vic 20 as well! In 1984. I was 4 years old.
Wow. In 84 it cost about a dollar per minute to talk on a cell phone. That's when minimum wage was $3.35 an hour. So you'd have to work for 20 minutes to afford one minute of talk time if you were a minimum wage worker.
Ok yeah I'm old. Thanks :P
I believe so too, on a micro-controller
First phone in 98? You must have been rich!
Finnish. The Nordics had their own networks since 1981. In '98 you had to support Nokia in their quest for world domination.