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[โ€“] HarriPotero 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We had a Vic 20 as well! In 1984. I was 4 years old.

[โ€“] Anticorp 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ok yeah I'm old. Thanks :P

[โ€“] 0_0j 1 points 6 months ago

5kB of RAM should be enough for everyone

I believe so too, on a micro-controller

[โ€“] Anticorp 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

First phone in 98? You must have been rich!

[โ€“] HarriPotero 1 points 6 months ago

Finnish. The Nordics had their own networks since 1981. In '98 you had to support Nokia in their quest for world domination.