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When did you get your first phone? First computer? What was it? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Ok yeah I'm old. Thanks :P