I didn’t. No one I knew had one. 1997. Alief Hastings High School.

I also graduated in 97 and we basically believed the only people who had cell phones were doctors and drug dealers.

Literally what my dad asked me when he found my first cell phone around that time, “what are you, a DRUG DEALER?!”

I got that when I asked for a pager.

Exactly 🤣🤣my mom was like “why do you have a beeper? You ain’t no heart surgeon”

I got a beeper when I was an expediter at General Dynamics. I gave my boss the number and went to do my job (being someplace I wasn't supposed to be doing things I wasn't supposed to be doing according to the 'rules'. I was basically a paid thief ). I had it on vibrate and it went off. Having never received a page to date I came about 3' off the floor.

>I got a beeper when I was an expediter at General Dynamics. I gave my boss the number and went to do my job (being someplace I wasn't supposed to be doing things I wasn't supposed to be doing according to the 'rules'. I was basically a paid thief ). I had it on vibrate and it went off. Having never received a page to date I came about 3' off the floor. Most people wore their pager on their belt so they probably wouldn't have ever *came* when it vibrated. I'm sure that there must have been others like you, but timing it for 3 feet off the ground is probably unique to you.

LOL.. it was on my belt by my hip. But your response was very funny. Well played.

A classmate of mine got a beeper around then (maybe a year or 2 later). He was showing it off at his locker between classes. We asked him why he needed a beeper. "In case someone needs to get in touch with me" Someone told him "only doctors and drug dealers need 24/7 access and your no doctor..."

Doctors and drug dealers are technically the same 😂😲😂

I think pharmacists would be closer to dealers. Doctors would be more like the friend that "knows a guy."

My catholic high school even banned pagers. I go in through a loophole because I had a Motorola 2-way pager/text. “So I could communicate with my parents”. Just had to leave in my locker during class. What a time to be alive

Was Zack Morris a doctor?

No, just wealthy.

I remember that was the mindset even in the early 2000s, but by 2004 most of my classmates had phones and I finally got one for Christmas that year so I would have my own instead of having to borrow one whenever I needed it.

Graduated 98 & this is true.

That can't be right. Owning a cellphone since 97 and...oh wait... When I graduated (Abi machen, as ze germans say) in 93, my uncle had a [Siemens C1](http://www.oebl.de/C-Netz/Geraete/Siemens/C1/C1k.JPG) in his Mercedes. He even could carry it around in it's "bigga bigga" case. Thing was massive like a stack of 10 Macbooks glued together We all made fun of him...

and rich kids in movies, like in Clueless.

Lol my Aunt was a doctor around that time and was the only person I knew that had a car phone, cell phone, or pager and she had all 3.

My brother and sister were teenagers in 97 and both had the Motorola StarTAC.

Same, I was lucky to have a cordless home phone.

Same. My dad had a brick car phone that he used for work, that we would sometimes let kids call their parents from.

We had the one mounted in the car

Never did have one of them fancy car phones… had one in the shitter though. It was on a special made shelf and was olive green. Our house was built in the late 50s

My dad had one that was basically a carry bag with a phone in it. I never got to use it. It wasn't until after university that I got a phone - Motorola flip phone.

Even more so in 1990. But I did buy a Motorola brick phone in 91, as I started working as an electrician. First bill was around $1200. Suffice to say I went back to using a pager after that for years til I got my second phone.

1995. We had pay phones and home phones. I think rich kids and drug dealers had pagers.

Class of 88 old person here.  Yes. Pagers=dealing drugs 

Same here, graduated in 95. No one in my class even had a pager!

1998. I didn't get a cell phone until I was 22. Motorola V60i flip. T9 predictive text SMS but nobody texted back then you just called people. https://m.gsmarena.com/motorola_v60i-352.php

Same, fellow class of 97 graduate! I knew some people that had pagers but thats about it.

It was all beepers in ‘97

shoutout Houston

Same era, we didn't get cell phones until the late 90's.

We didn't have phones yet, but if you were a member of the local volunteer fire department, you could have a pager at school!

Yes! The volunteer kids always got cool pagers, and full radios during games and practices. I was jealous.

I carried a pager from 97 to 2000, same year i graduated and got my introductory Nokia. I always kept my pager on me, set to vibrate.  Pretty much all my teachers knew I had it on me, but I didn't mess with it in front of them, and never got in trouble for it. And I definitely was not a volunteer firefighter 

Thank you for your service, Dr. Kevorkian

The indestructible Nokia 3310! You could make calls and you could play Snake — what else do you need?

Don’t forget you only had to charge it like once a week!

Fellow indestructible brick owner checking in! My graduation gift was a Nokia 3310. I played a lot of snake in 24 hour diners and the only people that called me were my parents because none of the other 17 and 18 years olds in my friend group had phones yet. I remember showing my phone to my friends and looking at all of the features, and when we saw that it had text messaging we all laughed. We literally said out loud, “Texting? It’s a phone! Who would bother texting back and forth when you can make a call?!”

Indestructible is right. I knew a guy who kept his in his back pocket when he rode horses. My dad told him that was a bad idea in case he fell and broke it. As luck would have it, he did fall and landed on his phone. Damn near broke his ass but the phone was fine

Yup, mine too. I did get a Razr not too long after I graduated HS though.

I, or rather, my family had a rotary phone.

One rotary phone. Mounted on the kitchen wall, with a cord that was about 75 feet long.

The cord was supposed to be 75 feet long, but was instead only 4 feet long because it was twisted up tighter than a bull’s ass in fly season.

You’re a poet.

/r/BrandNewSentence

My grandparents still had a rotary phone. We had a corded one and then a shitty cordless one later that you could sometimes pick up other peoples conversations haha.

Lg chocolate

I had a chocolate slide. Brother had the flip. Fun phones.

Man that brought me back thank you

Carried change around for a pay phone. Dad had a big car phone that he wouldn’t use because it “cost to much money”.

Had a dime. Call home. Rings twice. Hang up. I'm ready to be picked up from school.

My Dad had one too. For business and emergencies only. Bummed me out.

The gold Razr v3i! Class of ‘07. CINGULAR wireless 😂

I’m similar but had the flat version! Had to google it. Was the SLVR assuming for sliver.

Forgot all about that one!! There were so many different and cool choices back then, I miss the variety!

I graduated around this time, but only about half of my graduating class had cell phones. (I was in the poor half). I would say the Razr was tied for first with Nextel phones that had push to talk.

Motorola StarTac

My first cell after I got married was a Motorola circa 1999-2000 but I haven't been able to find a photo of it online and have no idea what model it was. It was a dark teal color! That was so cool at the time 😁

I had to cry to convince my brother take me to the store to buy one, as it turns out, I didn’t like it as much in person lmao.

You guys had phones?

Blackberry Pearl

Still my favorite phone I've ever had. My pink Razr was definitely the "coolest," but my Blackberry Pearl could take a beating and still worked.

Uhh, none

I think this question has started to expose the age range of this sub, haha! I laughed out loud when I read the question. Like... I graduated high school in 2001. My mom got me a Nokia with a green screen and retractable antenna in 2002 because I'd started driving to college instead of riding my bike, and she was paranoid I was going to get in a car accident with no way to call 911. No way I could afford that shit on my own with a 12-hours-a-week retail job at $7.50/hr. The cell phone is apparently still registered under her name (we share a plan--it's cheaper) because anyone with caller I.D. on a land line still answer and go, "Hello, \[my mom's name\]." and I have to go No, it's me, pm\_me\_x-files\_quotes. "Oh, sorry." When cell phones for kids started popping up, I was like, "Dude, how do they prevent kids from cheating?" I still have no idea. And now with A.I., I'm even MORE wondering how they're going to prevent students, especially college students, from cheating. I guess we grew up in a different time.

AT&T pay phone. Cost a quarter and there was a row of them at the end of each hallway. Back then, you never left home without a quarter in case you had to call home. I guess back then, a quarter was our equivalent of a cell phone.

When you dropped a quarter into the phone it would usually go silent on the handset, but on the phone network it would send five tones to the branch exchange (5c = one tone, so a nickel would do one, a dime would do two, a quarter would be five). (Edit to add - if a payphone was fucked up sometimes you could hear these beeps too) In the mid-90s I made a cassette that had five beeping tones recorded on it, plugged my PC's sound card into a tape recorder and generated the tones. If I held the headset from my Walkman up to the handset mic and played those five beeps, *sometimes* I'd get a free phone call. I never figured out why it worked on some payphones but not on others, it seemed like when I was in more rural areas it worked better, so I'm assuming older infrastructure. I still carried around quarters since it was unreliable, but it was pretty cool when it worked.

That was called phreaking. 2600's newsletter is called that because of the 2600hz tone. Whistles used to be a thing too. I had a cassette recorder I used for free calls for a bit, but there was a specific generation of payphone and earlier you needed to find. They all dried up in the early 00's.

Sidekick Slide 2008

I had the Sidekick 3, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I'm not sure why, but the Sidekick was huge with the emo/scene kids

LG enV2. Also was my last non-iPhone.

Same here, but I had one other non-iPhone after it and that one was a piece of shit. I loved the enV2. My favorite non-smartphone ever.

House phone. I would stretch the cord into the garage, so my mom couldn’t hear me talking to girls.

The hot pink Motorola Razr because Paris Hilton had it so I naturally had to have it lol

If you had the pink razr, you were a bad bitch.

I had a beeper in high school…

None

It was avocado green and mounted on the wall in my kitchen. The cord was all twisted to shit.

Lol. Graduated in 1986. I got my first cellphone in 2004. It was a Nokia 6200.

The kind with cans and a rope.

No one had a phone. It was the mid-1990s. You could have a pager though.

The one hanging on the wall w the dial on it

Pay phone

Damn yall had phones in high school?

iPhone 4 Edit: class ‘13

I graduated HS with a yellow landline phone on my kitchen wall that had a dial and a very long wire.

None. Went through high school with no phones, no cameras. It was glorious. Didn't get my first phone until 2nd year of college.

Mine was a Sony Ericsson K750i. IMO it's still a really good looking phone with an interesting design including a 'selfie mirror', camera cover and dedicated shutter button.

The pay phone of course. Was a dime for a local call.

None of my peers had one. My dad had a bag phone in the car that plugged into the cigarette lighter.

“Graduate” what’s that?

LG Env 2, 2010

[This one.](https://i.etsystatic.com/6114015/r/il/5a8af9/4552513849/il_1588xN.4552513849_p3io.jpg)

I didn't have a cellphone 📱 at the time, instead I had a pager/beeper machine/beeper 📟 it was in the 90's. Ah, sweet nostalgia~

iPhone 8

Nokia Lumia 920

Lucky enough to have a landline in my room so I had some privacy.

iPhone 3GS that I bought for myself on my 18th birthday

None, mobile phones existed, but they weren’t that common yet in 1997.

Graduated in 79

Didn’t have a cell phone in high school 😂 was better times

In 99 all I had was a payphone at the corner store and pocket full of quarters.

Cell phones were rare and expensive as hell when I was in high school, so no one I knew had one.

We got call waiting and caller ID when I was in high school, that was amazing.

It’s cute that this now nostalgic 🙄

I didn’t. It was 1989.

A pay phone

The pay phone.

My sweet summer child

The only portable phones we knew in 1981 was the phone in the Batmobile from the 60s and giant brick bag phones rich people had on TV.

I didn’t have one. Our family had phones with no answering machines. We didn’t screen our calls. If we weren’t home, we missed calls. I was born in 1959.

You see sonny in my day we didn't have cell phones but I did have a fancy pager

I graduated high school with a pager because it was 1995. All my friends had them so we could get a hold of each other since none of us were ever home.

I didn't even have a phone when I graduated college.

A house phone

Nokia brick phone. I played snake on it! Indestructible

Just a regular dial phone hanging on the wall

Lol, they didn’t exist when I graduated

There was a brief period when I was in the eleventh grade when I had a [Motorola MicroTAC 650](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_MicroTAC). I wanted a cell phone, so he gave me one of his old work phones and set me up on a pay as you go plan. It was 2006. I got laughed at alot.

Wall mounted dial. Yeah, I’m old. Class of 1978.

The kind that's attached to the wall in the kitchen with a really, really long cord. That cord has been twisted into what I can only describe as "an eldtrich horror's Christmas lights"

Graduation was with pagers

Heh. A corded landline. Also, long distance were a rare event.

Motorola MicroTAC in 1989

I didn't get a phone until my senior year of college in 2004.

The one that hung on the wall in the kitchen and had this thing with numbers on it that you had to move with your finger.

I was way too cool for a cell phone. In 97 I had a pager!

I had a beeper when I graduated I'm that old lol

hahaha graduate with a phone.

My high school phone was bolted to the wall, had a long cord attached to the receiver, and a rotary dial.

Had a pager in '96. That's about it.

Something from Ma Bell hanging on the wall in the kitchen.

The one that plugged into the wall.

iPhone 6 Plus, graduated in ‘17

Slvr 😂

with a pager! lol.

Well, I graduated in 1989 and I \*think\* my parents had the basic 'Princess' style land line phone at the time.

The one attached to my parent's wall

Motorola Graphite. We didn’t even know SMS was a thing. I remember getting the first one from my friend saying “I can see you”. I didn’t know what was going on!

[Ericsson T20e](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRwqiiHmxGwEs40_SWC1HeHeAwMSA_6LOu0Ew&usqp=CAU)

My friend group all had Nextel. The walkie talkie chirp function was awesome.

Motorola Startac

HTC One

I still kinda miss my keyboard slider. 

I had a virgin mobile flip phone

Didn't get one in highschool but made sure I had one for college. The LG VX8300

Hah! Yes the razr is what I had as well. It was gifted to me so I got the Aids Red version that Bono(U2)was pushing

1999 - Nokia 3210

I didn’t have a phone until I went to college.

2 tin cans and a string...

The very first phone to have iTunes: the Motorola ROKR.

The chocolate

[This phone. ](https://www.ebay.com/itm/225720357734) (But with a matching brown cord.)

The original razr was grey/silver Black was the second gen

we didn't have cell phones I was the only kid who had a beeper though.

Nokia Lumia 520. It was cheap and it ran Windows Mobile. A lot of apps weren’t supported but I reeeeeeally liked how everything looked. Camera wasn’t too shabby either for a budget phone. Kind of a shame Windows doesn’t do phones (though I get why) because the modern Windows architecture really works well on mobile devices. Plus you could customize any tile you wanted. I know I’m in the minority but Windows phones were pretty awesome!

Nokia n95. What a marvelous phone that was.

You guys had phones?

Nobody really had one when I finished in '99. I think I got my first one in 2001 ish.

Radio shack wireless home phone. We didn’t have cells when I graduated

Didn’t have a phone until freshman year of college, it was a Nokia. Not sure if the model. I had a pager in high school.

2009... I had this bizarre 2-way flip phone with a full keyboard [The Samsung U750 Alias 2](https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/922bf8c7-c59e-4fbb-8399-5973fa22033f.b7c3fdf32f36f4a1beeafb5e38b9044b.jpeg?odnHeight=768&odnWidth=768&odnBg=FFFFFF)

Couldn’t afford the latest at the time, so I had to make do with a second hand Nokia 6630. Always loved the Symbian OS.

I had one of these: [https://oldphoneworks.com/cdn/shop/products/small\_201-317.jpg](https://oldphoneworks.com/cdn/shop/products/small_201-317.jpg)

No phone.

Cell phones went really a thing when I graduated.

A rotary phone on the wall

Motorola v120t

Cell phones didn’t exist when I was in high school

Nokia E71 and I still have it and it even turns on

2 cups and a string.

https://i.etsystatic.com/24167497/r/il/7a952f/5863852999/il_794xN.5863852999_21qq.jpg

Ummmm none. Hitchhiked to a pay phone when I had a flat tire. 😂😂😂

T-Mobile’s Sidekick, for me!

A pay phone

No phone in HS for me. They were a novelty in '83!

I had a Sony Ericsson W810i 😎 i had about 12 songs on there. Dowloaded from LimeWire. Yeah it was the shit...

I graduated in 1989. My phone was attached the house via a cable, had big buttons on it, and no apps.

Rotary dial plugged into a wall, so I didn't exactly graduate "with" it! 1976.

The landline at my parents’ house.

You guys had phones in highschool???

IPhone 4s

Mine was a push button wall phone then.

I think an iPhone 6

Next to the deli on long view drive

I graduated with the phone on the wall in my parents kitchen. Cordless phones weren’t even a thing in 1974.

Sony Ericsson w810. I loved it

Wall phone with a landline.

I graduated with a Landline at my parents' house.

I think the only people I knew who had cell phones were Miami Vice.

The one attached to the wall.

I think like a beige one attached to the wall of my kitchen.

The one in the living room, and the one in the kitchen. You know the one, it had like 300 feet of cord that was always tangled.

I didn’t have one. Only the rich kids did. Class of 2003 here.

Rotary dial up on the wall.

A quarter to use the payphone!

I think it was a T Mobile Sidekick. God damn i loved that phone. 🐐 for texting and AIM