• zephyreks
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    2 years ago

    Phones aren’t the problem, applications are. No one ever complained about having Nokia 3310s in their pockets.

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      2 years ago

      you clearly went to a different school than I did in tne 1990s

      • quafeinum
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, snake2 was addictive… and don’t forget space impact.

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          2 years ago

          snake 2 was the best! When I bought my first cell phone from Radioshack and I told them it had to have snake, the sales lady was flabbergasted that I cared about having games on my phone.

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        2 years ago

        You guys had phones in the 90s? All I had was a tamagochi, and it got confiscated.

        • Ataraxia@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Oh yeah those weren’t allowed either lol! In 1999-2002 I don’t think we had phones either but pagers were banned.

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          2 years ago

          well I didn’t but the rich kids did.

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      2 years ago

      Pagers and cells were banned in my high school. If you needed to make a call you use the pay phones and the parent can call the office. Never been an issue. But at the very least keeping cell phones basic and only for calls would at least help.