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Ever grow up with a vintage Nokia? Those old cell phones definitely weren't computers in your pocket, I can tell you that much.  Kids today will panic if they had to use those primitive devices.

@Samurai Equine I don't know what that is lol, but I remember my parents having a phone with a cord on it. And those phone booths looked crazy, like someone was hunting humans and designed a trap to lure them in!

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This is what cell phones looked like before smart technology was a thing. The only thing it could do was make and receive calls, play very primitive games (like Snake), and make texts. (And when I say text, I mean text only. No images, videos, or links.) They didn't connect to the internet because internet was not wireless yet. There were no apps to download. Texting was a pain because you had to cycle through the number buttons to get the letters you wanted. There might be other features, like a basic calculator, but they weren't exactly a selling point.

Smartphones might not always be perfect, but compared to what came first, you are basically carrying a tiny computer in your pocket. What modern phones can do is pretty impressive by comparison. If phones like these were still usable, I'd make sure everyone goes through these as a phase before getting a smartphone. 

For education purposes, the phones with a cord on them and the phone booths are landlines. They existed before cellphones existed. The only thing those could do was make and receive calls. Internet and digital media didn't exist, so there was no way to use them for anything else. In the early days of cellphones, landlines were way more reliable. You needed one to connect to the internet. These days, cellphones seem to be the superior device, but there may be times when you still need a landline.

...I am old.