RETRO TECH: DYNATAC
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- Опубліковано 1 гру 2019
- The first ever cellular phone was the Motorola DynaTAC 8000x. It cost $10,295 in today’s dollars and had to charge for 10 hours just to make a 30 minute call. Without the DynaTAC, would we all have cellphones today? I dive into the history and impact of this piece of iconic tech and explores how its release led to our current cell phone obsessed culture. UA-cam creators Austin Evans and Sara Dietschy join me to test out some other pieces of retro tech, like a pager and a lipstick cellphone.
0:00 Dynatac
1:02 Unboxing a Dynatac
3:11 Talking Dynatacs
7:46 Initial Reaction
9:31 Dope or Nope
14:25 The Pager
16:26 Texting with Sara Dietschy
21:29 Lasting Tech Legacy - Розваги
This entire series was pure magic to me. Don't care if that's cheesy, either. I loved it.
Gabriel same! 😍
Agreed, i felt like i was travel back in the old time
Hey wassup guys .. thanos here.. 😎😎😎
Haha I have premium
@@neckless.papiga ๅๅ
People in 2020: "Don't text and drive"
People in 1980: *Dialing phone numbers in their car phone*
In the early 80s seatbelts weren't even required
Medbread 『🍞』 1940s: phones inside cars for the purpose of calling
Cole Walden January 1, 1968 Mandatory Requirement For Seatbelts In The U.S.
@@mjbgames4963 required to be installed, it wasn't until the late 80s it was actually mandated that you had to wear em
The funny thing is my first phone was a Motorola microtac 9800x and my car had a five speed manual transmission and I never had a wreck in my life and hands free was not a thing. So someone please tell me how people forget how to drive with one hand on the wheel? Did people get dumber over the years are we going to become a race of people that needs a computer to tell them how to eat and clean their butts. Is the skills that made the human race what it was slipping away. I think one electric magnetic pulse would kill off most of mankind.
Marques actually dubbing the phone call and acting the success made me laugh so hard
Everytime I see Marty Cooper, my eyes instantly start filling with water. I think most people don't even realize how big of an influence this old, charismatic man had on today's tech world. If it wasn't for his groundbreaking invention, there would be no iPhone, no Android, no smartphones AT ALL. This man and his team of engineers single-handedly changed the way we connect with each other forever. He is, by any means, the epitome of a freakin' LEGEND!!!!
@@Praaanjay me too!
Woah I felt this comment
This comment is underrated
Well then why not we all give support to Motorola again? Help the brand garner its glory back
His son was my creative writing professor in junior college. He said oh you and my father have the same first name! Once I realized who his father was I would bother him with a bunch of questions until one day he brought his father to meet me after class lol
Everyone: apple is so expensive
Dynatac: hold my antenna
16point bro...your 1 month late on that insult 😂
@@andrwsxo596 who tf is WE. The dynatac foundation??? Weirdo
16point bitch go back to playing fortnite, prick.
Apple would charge for the antenna separately
@@andrwsxo596 damn..who hurt you?
Dynatac: 10 hours of charge, 30 minutes of use.
Today: 30 minutes charge, 10 hours of usage.
A keen observation.....! 🤔
Mike Gustafson a bit exaggeration but true more like 30 mins 2 hrs
@@legitdownz8926 my Oneplus 7 pro can reach 50% in 30 minutes, which means way more than 2 hours of use
your forgetting the fact that you can charge them on the fly so 0 charging minutes and 24/7 usage. where as back then there was no portable power packs.
@@legitdownz8926 Realme X2 pro charge full in 30min
can we take a moment to appreciate how big of a role this "martin cooper" guy played in this society.
The lore accuracy of your 80s phone conversation deserves an Emmy, or Oscar, or Nobel. Something. Someone award this man.
I love how he emulated the first phone call.
Cellphone call*
Had a "Drunk History" storytelling vibe.
Awesome
Truly mind blowing at the time. Imagine if the original hardline phones had never existed and suddenly you had the ability to have a mobile conversation with anyone else with cell service. If you told someone from even 1900s that you could communicate to anyone wirelessly at one point it would be crazy to them.
@@AlexDecker I totally forgot about that show
6:36
Martin: Today, there are more portable phones in the world than there are people
Marques: **Thinking about the stacks of phones he has in the studio**
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@@waasiciye5249 sorry what!
“Hey, you’re dead to me”
MKBHD, 2019
21:17 is the time stamp
“Hey, you’re dead to me”
MKBHD, 2019
6:00 What he did to Bell Lab's Marty is fucking bad ass. Calling your competitor from a product you're both racing to get done. THUG LIFE!!! FUCKING LEGEND!!
Michal Fisher looks and talks like a realistic Tony Stark.
That's what I thought while watching the video
This man speakin facts
@@JayPatel-ls6wn u
15:00
😯😯😯
Hi
Can we take a second to point out how well Marques pulls off the Blazer/suit jacket?
This guy is a legend. How does he make such high-quality production so seemingly effortlessly?
Probably from the course of study he took
@@Harith5 what is the course of study he took?
@@thejokesonlife3745 🤦🏻♀️
I replied based on your previous comments about his skills .
@@Harith5 I know. It sounds to me like you are aware of his education background which is why I asked
@@thejokesonlife3745 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ "Probably" - READ AGAIN
Wtf So Zack Morris had a 10 grand cell phone is high school!??
Yep
$3000 back then...
@@chrisb1906 still alot of money even for the 80s like in 1980 the richest man had only 2 billion dollars
This series made me realize just how young he is lol but it makes his success that much more impressive
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+10 pts for his success at his age -9 pts for nope'ing the Startac
He has an entire drawer full of phones lol...
He could giveaway phones, but for real, not like unbox therapy ahah
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it's like you've never watched an MKBHD video lmao
i am crying
3:58 Before the cell phone, people had really good memories remembering people's landline numbers. Or they had a list in their wallet.
i remember when i had to memorise everyones phone numbers.
Most payphones had a phone book attached, so you could look up a number. Yellow pages in front part of the book were for businesses.
I still keep an emergency phone list in my wallet.
Retro tech is our family’s favorite show now. So awesome seeing the tech in the past and introducing it to our younger population. Very well done. 🤘
I like when Marques ask on the phone "are you home?" in those times you were calling people at home, on their phones so yes, they were home :D
Well, if you look again, the Marques asking "are you home yet?" is using the Dynatac wired. The one anwering is using the Dynatac wireless...
What about phone booths
that "woman's phone" reminds me of the compact phones from Totally Spies 😅
Yesssss!!!!
looks like some kind of military radio technology for civilians as a prototype
omg
OH YEESSS!! Loved that show as a kid...Also I still love it now! 😮😵🤗😅❤️👌
Yesss!!! I loved Totally Spies and always wanted their gadgets!
Marty Cooper: “Hi Joel, I’m calling you from a real cell phone, what do you think of that? Silence on the other end of the line.”
And that was the first dropped call in history
I STILL miss the 1980’s☹️. Everything was so simple back then.
How old are you?
@@CoTyyy he’s 72 years old lol
Yes it was. And California was a conservative state with the best colleges in the world. Today, California is a libtard sh!t hole of bad schools and homeless poop everywhere. I was 18 in 1980. The work was plentiful, the streets were "safe" if you were tough, and there were far fewer government intrusions. But today, life if far easier. Cars are better, phones are better, food is better. But you gotta know, crime and government are killing America today.
10:18 - I actually had the Matte Black version. It was my first cell phone when I started working at The Miami Herald as a photo editor in 1999. Love how you guys are laughing at it now, but that phone was amazing. I had 2 batteries. It was kinda easy to carry. After that we had the Nextels, and then I got into the Sidekicks. Been a fan of MKBHD and all these tech guys for years. It's crazy to think you guys didn't see this era. (It doesn't seem that long ago to people over 35)
Both my parents had one of those and they had a friend that worked at AT&T. He got me one of the fake display units and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. When it popped up on screen I got excited because it is absolutely DOPE to this day!
It's a trip that kids are so far removed from the 90's that they 've never heard that reference from Dr Dre and Snoop: 187.
lol born 2003 and not even from cali..still knew what it meant
Yeah, this hurt me. I was screaming "how do you not know?" Now I officially feel old.
@@reverietapes I think the weird part for me is that back then, everyone knew what it was and we all knew the song, even me as a white chick from a middle-class suburb of Detroit. Music back then crossed racial and economic lines. Even the TV shows that were on prime time TV were primarily what would now be knows as a "black" TV show, but back then I never thought of them that way. It is just strange and sad that things seem even more divided now. Yes, you see white suburban kids listening to rap now and you may see a show or two with mostly black casts on prime time, but are white people watching those shows and not thinking of them as "black" TV shows? I don't know the answer, but it was just something I was thinking about.
Cari Rea
Don’t worry about age stuff. I’m 18 and I don’t get some stuff people even just 2 years younger than me do. (Like TikTok and stuff like that)
It’s all relative from your perspective.
That's crazy. Never heard of that.
This is like a full on netflix documentary i love it
This is one of the best videos I have ever seen Marques. You have gotten SO so so good. It's been amazing watching you grow as a presenter. This type of content is so much better than just the tech only content. Your editing is spectacular and your vision and writing are great. Also as an software/electrical engineer you getting the interview with Martin Cooper literally made the hairs on my back stand on end. Then acting out the scene from Martin Cooper's experience was "chiefs kiss." Great job, you're wonderful!
I used to carry around a pager, with no service, in Junior high just to look cool.
same😂😂😂😂
Wait a min, our parents had an entire science lab in their car and they worry about our 5 inch devices?
Pretty crazy huh?
Well it was "just" an automatic multi channel FM analog radio trans-reciver, plus the extra circuits to interface with the POTS; encapsulate all of that in a mobile device, that's impressive for the '80, but it's not unprecedented, simpler handsets have been in use since WWII
Our phones does way more than what that control panel could do. Still pretty dope tho.
Nothing was more satisfying than hanging up on somebody with a flip phone!
"this is mad heavy"
-says the guy wearing a heavy chain
It's so mind blowing to think that 40 years from now, people will be talking about an iphone 11 like a dynatac.
Nope iphone 11 didn't made any history of a sort
@@vim1729 maybe original iphone. In 10-20 years when the next big change comes.
Cellular phones of that time will be the size of wireless earbuds or some holographic watch stuff,
They kinda do with the original one
@Kreature Feature ironic
I wanna see a full walkthrough of the drawers at 2:08
John Mayer has similar drawers, but with effects pedals :p
The production quality on this series always blows me away.
11:00 Your reaction to the StarTAC is - crazy - lol. At the time, "small and lightweight" was EVERYTHING. Phones were only a tool for voice calls, so the optimum phone was considered the tiniest thing on which you could dial a number and make a call. I was in middle school at the time, and my best friend's dad was a doctor. He got a StarTAC right as they came out. I remember one time he let me hold it, and that phone felt like the crown jewels or something. I mean I still distinctly remember the excitement all these years later.
And you guys are like "meh, unimpressive" and throw it aside.
That right there shows me however much things have changed with phones.
so , the UA-cam PREMIUM was worth IT.
Finally paid off after a year lol
no more stupid ads
Burhanuddin Gangartalai LoL I’ve had the trial for about 6 months now. Don’t know how tho
@@blumac9801 check your bills lol
BluMac. Did you put your card in before getting the trial 😂
Who else wants to see more pager message guessing😂😂😂
Sullivan Wu this!!!
187 😬
07734 guess?
@@bluechipsss HELLO, 1 7073 816 80085 guess...
@@Rvat1 I Love Big Boobs.
It always impresses me just how far back we all knew we wanted a phone in our hand
This is a beautiful series. Imagine calling your competitor as the first call!!!
5:10
Engineer - 'It's not possible'
Cooper - 'No, it's necessary'
Cue Zimmer soundtrack!
Nicely done !
We need more episodes in this series, sadly it's the last one from this season.
However, YT Premium now has found its worth, Retro Tech.
I love how Michael Fisher is taking the role of a true actor he's like "i finally can put what I learned in acting school into action" hes like wearing superman suit and glasses waiting for the moment of unveiling the superhero
The not knowing Saved by the Bell though...
I just saw this but he was born in 1993 and that's the final year of "Save by the Bell."
So when is the second season coming out?
*_My time has come_*
- My Premium Account
Hehe It's free now
@@lukmly013 Hehe
Hehe
My uncle had a StarTac, it was one of the first real cellphones I had seen. A few years later, I actually transplanted it into an aftermarket housing when it was falling apart... it was hard but it worked. I miss the days when one could do that.
This series was so rad!!
I loved learning about the OG tech
I hope we see another season sometime!
in every outdoor scene of this series he looks like an extremely retro hipster it’s so cool
He was supposed to wear the pager backwards in his pocket, no one wore it like that back then.
It's wild that we're at the age where people are old enough to now make videos on the history of things like technology from the '80s. Time really flies.
That's 40 years ago now, It's crazy
10:42 his reaction is priceless 😭
"Motorola was this company"
From developing tech on the moon, for soldiers in WW2, to becoming extinct. Motorola is such a cautionary tale.
Extinct? They just dropped a premium flagship smartphone
@@scottgooding9935 In name only, Lenovo owns them now.
@@Exnem oh snap, didn't know that
@@Exnem Motorola was in the same boat with Nokia. Unable to follow innovation that iPhone brought. This all makes me wonder. What will be the next big innovation that will kill a few big players of today's tech world? I mean, half of the cellphones in the world used to be Nokia. And just like that, in 5 years, no more Nokia. Microsoft bought them and does whatever with them. Nokia is building 5G tech though, so maybe there's something.
@@actual_john_doe VR
Fantastic series and my hats off to you for giving me value with my UA-cam Premium besides no ads.
I like this approach to YT original content. I've had premium since it came out for no ads on mobile and to support creators. But I like that they're taking channels that people already love and just helping them to more out there productions, rather than making their own content now
wait i don’t have premium and im watching. did he release it for not premium users recently?
Noah Weathers yep that’s how the other guys comment is from a month ago
I remember pagers from the mid to late 90s that could display the alphabet, not just numbers, and you called an operator to send your message.
10:50 that is the best reaction ever 😆
Hey Marques brownlee, can you say the name of the dealer from which you get all this things
Mean how the hell do he get things which are not in the market🤔🤔🤔
His name is Eeybai Craiglizt and he hails from Grumtri.
There's a market for everything if you can pay the price.
Motorola: It costs over 10k
*Apple has entered chat*
Wait a min, our parents had an entire science lab in their car and they worry about our 5 inch devices?
Apple: "I think we're selling them too cheaply."
Oh man, when Marques said "the fax is on its way" I was wondering if this was intentionally left there, the fact neither he nor anyone from the production team know that faxes were immediate shows how much we've come.
That's not true. Faxes used to take time to appear on someone's machine, especially if it was a long fax, depending on how the message was transmitted. YOU are forgetting that faxes were INVENTED in the 19th century, and first were done via wired transmissions. If you've ever had to use a dial-up modem before, you'd know that things weren't immediate, even if it was just text, even in the 1980s.
No, faxes took quite a while to receive and were notoriously unreliable. Calling to follow up or confirm the receipt of a fax was typical. It was why most faxes have send receipts. Can someone not get your email, sure, but it’s much less likely.
@@stefsmurf I stand corrected then, thanks for the clarification
@@JessieBanana I stand corrected then, thanks for the clarification
Back in the days of Dynatec, cell phones were basically operating like radios( walkie talkies). The radios like the Dynatec would communicate with something similiar to a repeater site ,usually a radio tower. Today smartphones are radically different, but in essence smartphones and cellphones are a derivative of radios but with much weaker tx power and higher bandwidth( more data handling capacity.)
Radios today still work the same way but with better coverage, very narrow bandwidth and a great emergency communications tool. Radios can communicate with each other and without infrastructure.
“There’s a matte black but you went with the rainbow 🙄” 😂😂😂
18:49 "187 on an undercover cop" - Dr Dre
I thought about that song but didn't know what the code meant..
Ok so I'm not the only one here that knew what I meant. 187 by Dr. Dre and the Big Pun cover are just to legendary to not know what it means.
It's like Retro Tech could dissolve "Ok Boomer" one issue at a time.
I'm old enough to remember using a rotary dial phone and the answering machine being a brand new tech!
This video is so personable and genuine...from the look, to listening to him talk and the interviews...no wonder Mkbhd is where he is today... there's nothing generic nor disingenuous about him. Much respect.
All these comments about “UA-cam premium is so worth it”, are they being sarcastic or what? Because I’m not subscribing to YT Premium and still be able to watch this video.
The whole series was first premiered on UA-cam Premium. Notice most of those comments are like a month ago.
Us non premium proles had a delay. And I believe we lose access after a certain window. Overall though I don't regret getting rid of premium, though maybe if they got more content of this quality I'd consider resubscribing
Stay cheap, life is passing by.
Pausing video... Me: I knew Zack Morris phone reference was coming.
MKBHD: What is Save By the Bell, and who is Zack Morris.
Me: Am I that old in my mid-30s?!?
I’m 24, and even I know who that is. I used to watch the show on the weekends. You’re not that olds he probably just lived under a rock, or something. 😂
I swear he is trolling lol
God your videos are really tight. High production value, interesting topics, good interviews and good editing. One of the best tec youtubers out there 👍👍👍👍👍
Younger people can't grasp how mind blowing it is for middle age and older folks who lived the cell revolution end to end.
To go from leaving your house perfectly happy without a 'smart device', to feeling as completely vulnerable without it as younger people do. All in a short span of your _adult_ lifetime.
THAT is revolution.
True.
80's created the world we are living in right now!
50's and 60's created world 80's lived in. 30's and 40's created the world 60's lived in.
Just a cycle nothing special about 80's IMO
@@adhithyagokul6257 STFU
I really liked seeing people I know like Austin Evans and MrMobile
It's a show for the tech fans by tech reviewers. The other celebs across the series is probably to attract the non tech heads.
Your series are great, thanks for showing us the history of these devices that were history for technological advance as it is today. Greetings from Argentina.
What I like about you is when I first started watching your video's way back when that you didn't change a bit over the years. You are still super relaxed. No clownishness, no dropping of stuff floor or ripping stuff up. Big thumbs up.
Incredible. The first ever cell phone call was to flex on his nemesis.
Also: The second call was probably "can your hear me now? Can you hear me now? Can y- "
Well, here where i live, pagers are still used to alert firefighters or other emergency services into action.
And believe it or not, i still have to use a fax for certain things.
I was wondering how they even got service for one, now I know. Thanks
Sadly the fax is enshrined in US law so we're probably not going to be free of them for a very long time.
Walking down 6th Ave with the first cellphone in history:
Calls number 1 rival to let him know what's good "Hi Joel"
You have now entered the flexxx zone
I love that rainbow phone, gosh I miss the 90s creative designs. I would buy a modern version of that...This guys contents are amazing and very fluid and entertaining. Can't believe am actually enjoying watching a tech video this much.
I bought premium for this !❤️
me to
This is so me
I did it for the ads
You could’ve just waited a month
Will P ikr
Jeez I'm old. The reaction of the extendable antenna... Adorable.
hey marques. This is absolutely amazing video. It one of the completely unexpected videos from you packed with amazing history and perspective. Cannot thank ou enough for giving the insight.
The thumbnail screamed "Marques makes his first playa call." I felt like a baller when I got my bag phone, when I was doing mobile car audio installations. This took me back!
I remember when I was a kid and I walk past a luxury car parked on the side of the roads like a Mercedes or a BMW and it had a small antenna with the only telecom service provider's logo (state service provider) at that time, I used to look inside and see these car phones which would look totally cool and futuristic and used to think how lucky the owners would have been to own it. I might have been like below 10 yrs I guess. My dad had a 90 model Toyota corolla. Now I am typing this from a Note 9.
Good old days.. I live in Saudi Arabia btw.
amazing how young these youtubers are....you would think this was ancient discoveries from egypt
MKBHD is 26
I used to work at Motorola in Libertyville and Harvard Illinois packing those phones up straight from the factory in the same building. Fun facts:
1. The original flip phone, The Microtac, was the first to have an internal antenna, the "antenna" that pulled from the phone was actually just a piece of plastic to make someone feel like they were actually getting better signal (which they didn't). That StarTac's antenna was the same thing, not a real antenna.
2. The original idea behind the SIM card was if someone needed to borrow your phone, you would pull the sim card out and he would insert his, so he would be the one getting charged for the call, not you. Thus why the sim card was the whole card instead of the cut-out SIM we are familiar with today.
3. The car manufacturers would use Motorola phones for their car phones (We stuck the Lexus, Lincoln, whoever to each phone by hand) Those car phones had identical components to the bag phones, except the bag phone had a huge battery.
4. Motorola gave Michael Jordan a StarTac, but he couldn't use it, his fingers were too big for the buttons.
Wow. Brought back a lot of memories. I remember that we had DynaTACs and the old bag phones at work in the 90's because they worked in rural areas.
They used lead acid batteries. Once, a guy was calling and bothering one of the secretaries, and one of the employees actually put one of batteries in his pocket and escorted her to her car. You could have used the batteries as a billy club.
Your'e missing the MicroTAC, which bridged the DynaTAC and the StarTAC. That was the first flip phone I remember. The StarTAC was the lust phone of the late 90s.
I'm reminded that I've never had a flip phone. My first was candy bar style in 1999, then a spinner. That's back when I had the same phone for years, so those lasted until my first smartphone in 2007.
MKBHD: “This is Dope or Nope.”
Matthias from Edge: *screaming in the background*
I was wondering if they were gonna get him for stealing that from Dope or Nope
So happy to see in 2022 that Marty Cooper is still alive at 93 years of age! What a legend!
I LOVE this series! I wasn't even really aware of these until I stumbled across one while watching your other videos. Great stuff!
KLF is gonna rock you!
"Like" if you understand
Are you crazy? How could you give the Startech a nope. That phone was awesome at it's time. That phone was the communicator from Star trek. That phone is definitely a DOPE!!!
I was born in 88 and always wanted a cellphone as a kid.. when I was 13 or so, virgin mobile became a thing and I bought the $100 candy bar. The rates sucked but I finally had my own phone!
I still remember checking out the startacs at the mall kiosks and thinking they were the coolest thing ever.. I managed to miss the rainbow edition though. I also had a collective of pdas in the early 2000s and modern smartphones were basically the gadget that id always dreamed of. The first time I used a friends iPhone blew my mind and I bought an iPod touch the next week. I didn’t have a true semi modern smartphone until 2010 when metro pcs offered a $100 Android with a $50/mo unlimited plan, I was a very poor college kid at this point.
You’re right about those awful images on the Siemens.. I had one from that era along with a couple Nokia’s that had a similar library.
Totally forgot I had a pager at one point too, in 7th grade I think.. it was a vtech thing that was kind of egg shaped. It was $30 and I think $20 of that was “airtime” at 10 cents a page or something.. I literally think I used it twice then the airtime expired after a few months and I just didn’t care to reup it. I have absolutely no memory of what happened to that thing
The "women's" phone looked like a compact with birth control pill buttons lol. Marques also didn't mention beepers went through a phase where you COULD send actual alpha-numeric messages. You had to call a number, speak with the operator who would type the message for you. My aunt once asked me to page my uncle and tell him to "buy milk". At the time, it was kind of embarrassing to ask the operator to send that message (since beepers were more business oriented), but the operator said she pretty much received all kinds of messages like that lol.
Marques: How big is your chain ?
Gerard Williams: Yes
"Police code for murder..."
"Why would anyone know that?"
Not big Sublime fans huh?
Dustin Lockwood or NWA, or Snoop, or Dre, or you know, anybody.
I am 47 years old, grew up in the 80's and remember all of these! My first memory of a car phone I was 11 years old and in my uncles car with my cousins driving to a birthday party and he had a car cell phone but the way he traveled around with was in a suitcase. When the phone rang you lifted the suitcase and answered the phone. I also remember the car phones that fit onto your dash that were also featured in this video, the pager and of course the very first handheld cell phone. I also remember all the flip phones that first came too. I used to have a pink razor! In my 20s I knew people with Blackberry phones. I thought they were so awesome at the time, and the people that carried them. If you had a BlackBerry you were somebody cool! Lol It's pretty amazing how far we've come in technology.
My dad was a ham radio operator (he died in 1992 and I still remember his call sign). He and his fellow hams had the ability to make calls from their cars using their ham equipment via a process called autopatch. Basically the operator had to put a call out to another operator who was in their own home who then dialed the requested number and host the call. My dad used the autopatch system a few times to call home as his job had him driving long distances in isolated areas.
Growing up with cell phones and pagers. I remember when phones where 1k+. Now people act like it's crazy that some phones are reaching them prices once more.....
You guys made me feel like a 38 year old dinosaur lmao. The startac was like the original razr phone with how much folks coveted it.
yeah the Star Trek flip communicator was so cool, and StarTac was the first real-life technology that came close.
The brick phone... oh the days of looking back on that while laughing about it on our flip phones... We thought we were so advanced
The best part about these retro tech videos is the fact that the expects who are brought in to talk on past tech sometimes aren’t even old enough to have personal experience with any of it. I’m loving all the videos though!