Remember this?

Is it me or does everybody else remember these phones like it was yesterday? It seems like it was only a few years ago when I had one of these crazy phones. It's funny because young teenagers would look at you strange if you told them this was the way phones looked back in the day. Oh and the ring tone they had.... grrrrrr!!!!! Hey wait a minute... is this my phone? Dang... I had one just like this one!

I remember trying to talk to someone and having to stay close to the phone because the cord was no longer than 3 feet. These cords I'm talking about looked like they just got a perm from a hair saloon. Then they started coming out with cords that were 10 ft, 20 and even longer. With a cord like that you could at least go to the other side of your house while your talking. These cords were a freaking mess. They would always get tangled up into a big knot. Then they started coming out with cords that were straight. In other words, these cords didn't have a perm. Cords got so long that you could almost go to the bathroom while you were talking.

Then the cordless phones started booming. Oh my gosh! You could walk all over the house and talk on the phone at the same time. Next thing you know cell phones got to the point to where it was a must to have one. They went from big and bulky to small and thin really quick.

I'll never forget having a cell phone that looked like it would pass for a carpentry tool. They were thick and had an antenna that needed to be pulled out of you were gonna talk to anyone with a clear signal. As time quickly passed, they started getting smaller and smaller. Now cell phones are like pocket computers! I think I'm speaking for a huge percentage of people these days but I think land line phones are out. History! Why on earth would you have two phone bills when you can call anywhere you want to call at any time of the day with your cell phone? It use to be like this. You had your land line phone for local calling and then use your cell phone for long distance. Not the case anymore. Cell phone providers have rates to where you call anywhere at anytime for one price. Unless you're calling someone in Brazil during the middle of the day you'll be fine. Again, why on earth would you have to phone bills? 

When I moved out of my old buddies house and moved into a house all by myself, there was no way I was going to get a land line hooked up. Now I'm so use to just having a cell phone that I wouldn't know what to do with a land line.

So welcome to 2010! Shoot... by now I thought cars would be hovering in the air but that may not be far off. Just look at the technology going in to these phones. Shelly and I both just got Verizons new touch phone - the droid. These phones have applications that will start your car. Okay, not that but seriously though, I can put the phone up to a radio and it will scan the song and tell me who the band is, the name of the song, what year it came out and all that good stuff.

Just wait another five or ten years and see what cell phones are doing. They'll make these look dated probably! Watch what I tell ya!