THE 80s IS CALLING...

80s CELLULAR PHONES MAKE A GREAT JOKE

If you wanted some hi-tech gadgets the place to hit up was Radioshack. I haven't been to one of those in years...I wonder why?

80s called...

I'm not sure how cool it was to have a cellular phone, but, add a nice mullet, some cool 'shades', a gold watch...and you're cookin' with gas!

80s cool

I always picture slimey stock brokers as the only people in the 80s who had cell phones. 

My idea of an 80s stock broker

 Nowadays, cellular phones are for everyone!

80s phones for 80 year olds

And, the price of technology has really gone down. Imagine the payment plan back in '85 if you bought the big phone with the extra battery pack...I wonder how much unlimited data cost? 

42 year payment plan of only $18.99 a month

Kids ask today why phones were so big? Obviously it was because they needed a giant case for protection when the Russian's dropped nuclear bombs on the west...obviously! 

80s phone had a case that would withstand a nuclear explosion

And sadly, some of the giant tech from the 80s is still in use today - like the fax machine.

Hulk could lift the fax machine, but, not many others!

I do remember using a car phone. It was probably in the really late 80s...maybe even December of 1989...we had a family friend, a 'rich' lady who helped shuffle kids from the church group around in her big Lincoln...and she had a car phone. She would let us use it to call our parents and tell them we were on our way home.

Nothing says 80s like a car phone being used by Miami Vice

I do remember my parents being very hip by doing 'telephone banking'...it took like an hour and 3,487 pushes of buttons on the phone to transfer money around in their bank account, but, hey you could do it from home! Imagine the future if that was possible way back then! 

I believe Tom Selleck was a big fan of telephone banking

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