[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  JJ [@JINVISIBLEWOMAN](/creator/twitter/JINVISIBLEWOMAN) on x 27.8K followers Created: 2025-07-20 21:32:58 UTC ❓Are you older than the internet? What about cell phones? This past decade has been the most technically advanced in my humble opinion. We’ve lived through so much! There was a time when “streaming” meant tears, and “clouds” were just in the sky… Let’s talk about the wild inventions of the internet and mobile phones. These are two things we now treat like oxygen. It got me thinking when @cloud1a7 posted that he was older than Google. I remember getting my first email in 1994 through dial-up AOL. It felt so cutting-edge, but also, who was I going to email? We had an IBM green-screen DOS machine that my parents gave us. Back then, barely anyone had a home computer! Only XX% of households owned one. 🖥️ The internet actually started back in the late 1960s as a U.S. military project called ARPANET. It wasn’t cute. It was slow, clunky, and had exactly zero memes. By the 1990s, it crept into homes with dial-up connections that screamed at you like a dying robot. And if someone picked up the house phone? Connection gone. Rage initiated. 📱Mobile phones arrived in 1983. They were the size of a shoebox, cost around $4,000, and made you look like you were calling in an airstrike from your car. But hey, it was mobile (as long as your arm didn’t give out). We had one of those in the late ’90s for road trips with our kids. It came in its own suitcase and had to be plugged in! Fast forward to the 2000s. The internet got faster, phones got smarter, and now here we are, googling everything, texting people in the same room, and panic-searching “why does my phone randomly vibrate?” Seriously, in under XX years we went from “Can you hear me now?” to “My fridge just DM’d me.” What was your first phone or internet memory? Bonus points if it involves AOL, T9 texting, or a flip phone selfie!  XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [has been](/topic/has-been) [jj](/topic/jj) [Post Link](https://x.com/JINVISIBLEWOMAN/status/1947047102401421614)
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JJ @JINVISIBLEWOMAN on x 27.8K followers
Created: 2025-07-20 21:32:58 UTC
❓Are you older than the internet? What about cell phones?
This past decade has been the most technically advanced in my humble opinion. We’ve lived through so much!
There was a time when “streaming” meant tears, and “clouds” were just in the sky…
Let’s talk about the wild inventions of the internet and mobile phones. These are two things we now treat like oxygen.
It got me thinking when @cloud1a7 posted that he was older than Google. I remember getting my first email in 1994 through dial-up AOL. It felt so cutting-edge, but also, who was I going to email? We had an IBM green-screen DOS machine that my parents gave us. Back then, barely anyone had a home computer! Only XX% of households owned one.
🖥️ The internet actually started back in the late 1960s as a U.S. military project called ARPANET. It wasn’t cute. It was slow, clunky, and had exactly zero memes.
By the 1990s, it crept into homes with dial-up connections that screamed at you like a dying robot. And if someone picked up the house phone? Connection gone. Rage initiated.
📱Mobile phones arrived in 1983. They were the size of a shoebox, cost around $4,000, and made you look like you were calling in an airstrike from your car. But hey, it was mobile (as long as your arm didn’t give out). We had one of those in the late ’90s for road trips with our kids. It came in its own suitcase and had to be plugged in!
Fast forward to the 2000s. The internet got faster, phones got smarter, and now here we are, googling everything, texting people in the same room, and panic-searching “why does my phone randomly vibrate?”
Seriously, in under XX years we went from “Can you hear me now?” to “My fridge just DM’d me.”
What was your first phone or internet memory?
Bonus points if it involves AOL, T9 texting, or a flip phone selfie!
XXXXX engagements
