I’ve always been a late adopter.

I got a pager when I was 14 years old. It was the year 2001. I used to page myself 07734, it read “hello” when you turned the pager upside down. Other than that, I think my mom is the only person to have ever paged me and she probably only paged me once. I was hype though.

In high school, I was the last to get a cell phone. I had over 20 phone numbers memorized and I carried a checkbook-sized notebook for the ones I didn’t have memorized. I knew which friends had “free nights and weekends” and wouldn’t worry about me using up their minutes. Eventually, I got a girlfriend and I didn’t want to have to call her from my parent’s house phone anymore. I downloaded the ringtone of The Temptations’ “My Girl” and programmed my phone to play it when she called.

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