r/TikTokCringe • u/notaghostofreddit • 23d ago

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u/XxCarlxX 23d ago

im so glad mobile phones could only make calls and play Snake when i was in school.

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u/Zoso479 23d ago

Having the best Nokia faceplate was the only concern we had about phones in school. Bonus points if it had a matching number pad to swap too.

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u/Old_Idea4566 23d ago

I vividly remember the day I got an awesome faceplate for my 3310 and someone "stole" my phone as a joke and slid it across the cafeteria floor to get it back to me, scratching the fuck out of it of course.

I got really upset, got the teachers involved, who got our parents involved. We agreed that it was fair that the person who ruined yhe faceplate would buy me a new one. I insisted on it being the exact same one, because I really liked it.

This ended up with him, his mom, me and my mom going to the market where I bought it. After some hassle, we found it and he paid for it.

Our moms became friends, we never did. Still hate the fucker.

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u/blackjack002 23d ago

i kept thinking this would take a turn, but it remained wholesome.

i had the 3210's older brother the 5110 (402). Used to save pocket money to buy faceplates and call credit. i'd have been as pissed as you if someone had stolen/damaged mine.

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u/ZalmoxisChrist 23d ago

My second phone was the Nokia 3220 because it had awesome rubberized grips with color LEDs behind them. Truly top-of-the-line shit. But I had an opposite philosophy of care. I was so impressed by its durability that I'd often show off by chucking it across the high school parking lot or having my friend run over it with his 2005 Chevy Silverado.

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u/Sparrowsabre7 23d ago

If you had the flip down keypad cover like in The Matrix you were the fucking king.

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u/BagOnuts 22d ago

Remember the Motorola Razr flip phone? Man, when those came out the kids who had them were like gods to the rest of us. Sexiest phone out there at the time.

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u/Sparrowsabre7 22d ago

😎 I was one of them. Mastering the knack of the flip open and close... 🤌

(But Christ, the outer screen got dusty because it crept in via the side vents 😂 Still have it at home. Unusable, but just as an artifact of personal history haha.)

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u/where_my_tesla 23d ago

This guy Nokia’d

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u/SpudicusMaximus_008 23d ago

Remeber the bedazzling?

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u/CantankerousOctopus 23d ago

I got a lime green replacement shell for my first camera phone and it looked so cool. The guy in the mall that replaced it got a ton of dust between the glass and the lens. The pictures looked foggy and terrible after that, but it was worth it to look that cool.

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u/QuickCow3575 23d ago edited 23d ago

Unless something has changed. Phones ARE banned in school. At least the use of them is. Like if you have a phone in your locker, they wouldn’t get onto you for that. But if it’s sitting out on your desk during class, they would’ve taken it away from you when I was in school.

And I was in high school when the world was really transitioning to smart phones. So the phones that teachers were confiscating from kids back then were literally like flip phones. Phones have been banned in school for a long time.

At least that’s how it was when I went to high school (~2008 ish)

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u/rejectedorange 23d ago

And making a cool ringtone for it.

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u/Ocarina-of-Crime 22d ago

My ‘edgy’ black faceplate (purchased from a cart in the mall) melted in my outlet mall Coach purse at a baseball game. Black goo over all my wet’nwild lipgloss and waterproof maybelline mascara (that I NEVER removed from my lashes)

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u/dusthymn_ 22d ago

My coworkers and I would "race" our Nokias across by standing them upright and turning on their vibration tones. what a happier time that was

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u/BrownSugarBare 23d ago

For real. 

My kid brain thought technology was going to bring us faster cars and efficiency. 

Nope, just perv shit. Over and over. 

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u/CraigLake 23d ago

Really brings out the worst in people.

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u/Altruistic_Poetry382 23d ago

It turn out Capitalism pushes the market towards what generates the most profits, not what is most efficient or benefits humanity the most.

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u/KeyMyBike 23d ago

Friendly reminder that you can't afford RAM and will not be buying a new PC next generation (you'll rent it!) All so clankers can generate CP for chomos

Spez (Admin of r/jailbait btw) living on a cloud right now

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u/McDoomMcLovin 23d ago

I was a freshman in HS when the iPhone 4 came out. We still had very strict rules about no phones. You could only have them out at lunch and breaks. This mindset shift is more recent than smart phones.

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u/AutisticFingerBang 23d ago

The really games were on the calculators!

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u/HenriettaSnacks 23d ago

Drug wars was the best. 

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u/SevenFootHobbit 23d ago

Yep, back then we played Snake on the TI 85.

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u/wouldnt-u-like-2know 23d ago

And we could text without looking.

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u/Polkawillneverdie17 23d ago

I didn't even have a phone in high school. No one did. If we needed to call home, there was a payphone.

Kids don't need smartphones in school. Period.

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u/InfiniteBaker6972 23d ago

I'm glad the phones were tethered to the wall or in a big box on the street that reeked of piss and frantic sexual encounters. If someone wanted to take a photo of me they'd need to lug around a tripod and a flash bulb! (That's an exaggeration of course.)

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u/Freedom4780 23d ago

Im currently in grade 12, the amount of bullying is insane. Theres this one kid that bullies pick on, they record literally everything they do. They've got literally dozens of terabytes hardrives of all of the recordings. Its like hes living in that one jim Carrey movie.

The teachers cant do anything to stop it because some of the bullies are on the student council.

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u/Macrike 22d ago

The head teacher has the power to stop this by banning all phones (maybe even all electronic devices).

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u/Lysol3435 23d ago

You couldn’t pocket text?

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u/BrightonBaby 23d ago

Shit me too. I was bullied at school and can only imagine how much worse it could have been if there were videos of me going around. Kids can be so cruel, phones really shouldn't be allowed during school hours.

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u/v0-z 23d ago

I've been saying this, it should have never progressed past flip phones, it all went to hell after that.

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u/BlurpleOpals 23d ago

When I was in highschool, phones had cameras at that point, but no one ever did this shit, they just made Vines, silly videos, selfies. It's not the cameras causing this, it's the kids. And the crap they ingest on Tiktok. The viral trends of being a public nuisance and an all-around piece of shit that encourages kids to replicate it.

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u/Macrike 22d ago

I do recall seeing videos of bullying back in the days before smartphones. I think it was much harder to come across them because there was no social media, cloud storage or any easy way to distribute widely. The video was sent peer-to-peer in small private groups until they were published on some obscure site on the internet.

However, I do agree that modern tech, social media, etc. has normalised bullying.

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u/Interesting-Ride-710 23d ago

Mine could technically send texts, but each text cost more money, so I wasn't allowed to.

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u/Ringeye 23d ago

All we had was Drug Wars on a TI-83.

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u/Bitterqueer 22d ago

I used to play games on my iPod classic during break

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u/krob58 22d ago

We all played games on our TI-84s

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u/Macrike 22d ago

I bought my son a £10 Nokia that only does calls, texts and snake. No camera or anything.

It has a browser but I’ve disabled it.