Dude’s got a chair handle in his pants.
Contextually I’m saying it’s a diaper. This is a guy who doesn’t love getting out of his chair.
My first reaction was that he was packing heat like an elephant, but yeah, incontinence guard is far more likely.
What in the freaking pixel fog am I looking at
Peak Male Life Style. You wouldn’t get it.
All I can make out is the dude and his massive honker
Actually you just had to “play” it and lots of Nokias had a custom ringtone composer you could actually write ringtones with yourself.
So you’d just reserve an hour of computer time from the library, browse some guides on how to compose Axel F on a 3210, write them down/have it printed and then input them into your phone.
Here’s that composer in action: https://youtu.be/ymjV1IwReU4
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Damn… I can remember doing this and just finding it easier to buy a ringtone when they were cheap.
Is there any context to this picture? I’d love to read it lol
how did this guy get into my bedroom, why are the colors backward, and who replaced my desktop with a fax machine?
and who cleaned?
I don’t get it. Don’t we do that now as well? Putting .mp3 files up as our ringtones?
Oh my sweet summer child. Ringtones were in a different audio format than mp3s. Plus, getting the ringtone onto the phone required additional fuckery.
additional fuckery
Oh, wow, that phrase is doing a lot of heavy lifting here…
Phones didn’t have UFS/USB storage like today. So usually you were using a proprietary cable and software to move files over.
That’s what I’m saying. “Additional fuckery” is really putting it mildly compared to what we all really had to go through.
Oof. May I ask which audio format it was? Or was it different for different phones?
every phone had a different format, i remember the Razr had a deprecated tool to convert .mp3 to a format it could read and limited it to like…30sec audio snippets?
Well first of all who actually has their ringer on anymore
And secondly it was WAY more of a pain in the ass back then
It was a pain in the ass back then.
Had to convert it to a amr file, use a weird proprietary cable.
Ya, but you could save a whole 99¢ doing it.
Yeah way easier now am I right? Maybe you should post instructions for the the old people who don’t know how
What is all that stuff around him? Just random crap?
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Remember ringback tones. Everyone should hear my shitty music
My very first cell phone ever was a Danger Hiptop/Sidekick in 2002. It didn’t need conversion. It just straight up used mp3s. 😎
I fought tooth and nail to get my parents to invest in cell phones when they were becoming ubiquitous around the time I started high school. They refused… Until I worked my ass off to buy my own and pay for my own service and they actually saw the benefit of being able to call me when they didn’t know where I was. The Sidekick was the only one that had real internet browsing and not that WAP shit. I was also super into MUDS and it had an SSH client built in. Thing was slick. I kinda wish for an updated one that runs Android because I really miss having actual keyboard buttons.
