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How old were you

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  • mommy2AR
    mommy2AR Posts: 2,796 Member
    I was 18 and now I am 30 :)
  • MrAllia
    MrAllia Posts: 60 Member
    I remember when cell phones came out. I also remember when a time before Microsoft existed (Yay DOS), oh, remember when those pesky dinosaurs roamed the earth?! Ah, the good ole' days. Beepers were the rave in my teens/tweens 911, 3407, 14, 07734 (Translated means Emergency, Love, Hi, and Hello in number form on a beeper) My first cell phone must have been when I was 25. It was a Mitsubishi phone, revolutionary at the time.
  • sho3girl
    sho3girl Posts: 10,799 Member
    17 paid for myself - lucky i worked for the phone supplier so got to choose my number as aswell !!
  • Italian_Buju
    Italian_Buju Posts: 8,030 Member
    I was 16. and paid for it myself....I am 36 now.....I was actually the first person I knew that had one....I was SO busy though, that it really came in handy....

    Edited to add: I had a pager at some point too, but it was AFTER that first phone, not sure why now, too long ago, can't recall......
  • StrengthIDidntKnow
    StrengthIDidntKnow Posts: 543 Member
    I had a pager first. My first cell phone was 23, I worked for Nextel and it came with the job. It was so heavy, it broke the straps on my pocketbook. I am 38 now.
  • marieautumn
    marieautumn Posts: 928 Member
    i was 15 and a big upgrade from my pager. I'm 25 now.
  • Mandamommy5
    Mandamommy5 Posts: 297 Member
    Got mine at 18 when I started working, I'm 26.
  • mndamon
    mndamon Posts: 549 Member
    zack-morris-phone.jpg

    Ha! This was the first thing I thought of.
  • kalawhon
    kalawhon Posts: 162 Member
    I believe my mom bought me and my brother one when I was 17, didn't use it much bc the minutes ran out.. Ha!. I'm 25 now.. (that cell phone didn't last long)
  • kalawhon
    kalawhon Posts: 162 Member
    zack-morris-phone.jpg

    Ha! This was the first thing I thought of.

    haha funny!!
  • livinginwoods
    livinginwoods Posts: 562 Member
    I was 20, 32 now!
  • husker_gal
    husker_gal Posts: 462 Member
    I got my first one at 14. I worked the entire summer babysitting so I could buy it and pay the entire year in advance. I'm 24.
  • OneFitDude16
    OneFitDude16 Posts: 169
    when i was 12
  • staceface519
    staceface519 Posts: 167
    I got my first cell phone at 17 when i started driving. . . after that i had to buy every cell phone ive ever owned and pay my bill. . . (i miss my $20 bill ). . . now im 27 and spend way to much on cell phones and plans lol
  • michelejoann
    michelejoann Posts: 295 Member
    19. This is back when many people my age didn't have cell phones. Mine was tiny compared to those Nokia bricks they used to hand out. It was an Ericsson flip-phone on VOICESTREAM! This was before T-Maybe even EXISTED!

    I've been rolling with VZN since 2003, though.
  • clairyfairy247
    clairyfairy247 Posts: 425 Member
    I was really young - about 10/11. It was my mum's old phone (a super old Nokia 6110 I think) and it was only for emergencies or calling to tell me dinner was ready when I was playing at a friends.

    I'm 20 now.
  • confettibetti
    confettibetti Posts: 405 Member
    hmmm first cell phone was one of those car phones, it was one of those bagged phones, does that count?? and I was 16. I am 31 now :)
  • staceface519
    staceface519 Posts: 167
    I was SO cool with my pager at 17. Remember getting 911 pages from my friends and having to find a pay phone to see what was up. Cell phone wasn't until I was 19 and leaving for college. It was HUGE.

    HAHA i remember those days. . . i had a pager before a cell phone and my parents were pissed because id never call them back. . then they got me a cell phone so i had no excuse. lol.

    P.S. pagers were AWESOME!
  • andiechick
    andiechick Posts: 916 Member
    I got mine at 25 when I started working in Customer Services for a mobile phone company and they were still relatively new for use outside of work so most of us hadn't had one. I'm 39 now
  • amberecochran
    amberecochran Posts: 124 Member
    I think I was 25 when I got my first cell phone. I am 35 now.
  • sdow
    sdow Posts: 71
    46 when I got the cell phone. I am 56.
  • jcpmoore
    jcpmoore Posts: 796 Member
    hehe I was probably around 23 or so. And it was a bag phone. lol I'm 39.
  • outtanms
    outtanms Posts: 237 Member
    I'm pretty old, does a pager count?

    ^^^^^^^^^this. LOL!
  • woodsygirl
    woodsygirl Posts: 354 Member
    30
  • tashmash2011
    tashmash2011 Posts: 49
    11 years old i'm 22 now, a bright blue Alcatel one that flashed when it rang with a matching watch!, it was a present for passing my grammar school test and also re-assurance for my mum because i was just starting high-school and getting the bus on my own which i'd never done before and travelling the 6 miles to school and back every day.
    I have a little boy who's 3 now though and i wouldn't dream of letting him have one so young, but only because these days you can access the internet, go on bbm, facebook twitter etc off your phone and i don't think anyone under 16 should have access to those, although i'll see in 8 years time i'll have probably buckled after endless nagging for the lasest I phone or blackberry seems all the kids have them these days!
  • newhabit
    newhabit Posts: 426 Member
    It was 2003 so i was 24! it was a giant Nextel flip phone. I did get my first gigantic digital camera in 1999 though.
  • mariagabriella
    mariagabriella Posts: 267 Member
    11, 20.
  • DekuNutty
    DekuNutty Posts: 17
    I think I HAD a phone from when I was about 14 or 15 (got given my sisters old one.) but I never once used it, left it in a drawer, and got my first actual phone when I was 18. I'm 21 now.
  • jennaworksout
    jennaworksout Posts: 1,739 Member
    :noway: I think I was 21....I'm 38 now.... so your going back to 1995 :ohwell:
  • spazz_face
    spazz_face Posts: 44
    I was 12 and I am now 20.

    :)
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