My ringtone was a funky chiptune version of O Green World by Gorillaz.
Don't forget ringback tones so u could force anyone who called to listen to a scratchy version of a shitty song any time they called. My sister still had hers til like 2015 or something.
She has a baby by macaulay culkin now.
Oh. Is that who that is? I thought it was just some random token Asian girl.
Who is she?
Brenda Song.
Brenda Song.
I just looked at her filmography. I was just a little too old to know her shows. My younger brother watched some of them. It I was nearing the end of high school at that time.
London Tipton
2 of em
Oh shit, a lil family pack.
I had the hots for her back in the day.
Didn't know they had kids though, good for them!
i bought akon - lonely from a TV ad when i was a young teenager for my polyphonic nokia.
what i didnt realise was it signed me up to a weekly £5 subscription and it racked up over £100 before my dad found out.
Had to abandon that number and get a new sim
Ahh yes.. the Xennial Generation.
I think that's a good name for kids born between 1980 and 1995. We mostly grew up with NO Internet at all but were pretty immersed in it by the end of high school. I'm young enough to have had both floppy disks and flash drives in my youth. Once my classmates and I got flash drives, that's how we shared music between each other after we got Chris to download what we wanted from Limewire lol
I mean that pretty much covers the entire millennial generation...
Shhh... OP wants to think he was uniquely born into his own personal time period
Dude, where the fuck did our 20s and 30s go?
I had to drive over to a different truck shop for a flash drive this year.
On my car I use a flash drive to crack the software.
In my shops library they have a few floppies.
:')
Xennial refers to people born from somewhere in the mid 70s to 1980. It's a narrow subset of Gen X made up of those that were growing up during the information revolution.
I would say it might apply to someone in the very early 80s. But anyone born in 1995 definitely had their formative years with internet access and are firmly millennials.
To me, the earliest Millennials were the class of 2000. It always felt like there was extra pressure on us because we were going to be the first of a new millennium.
The divide was especially stark in my high school. The class of 99 - the last of Gen X - were kicked out of every pep rally and assembly for being disruptive, while the other classes were all well behaved and didn't really understand why they were acting this way.
Excuse me, I downloaded my ringtones, and had the funky cables to upload ringtones to my Nokias thank you very much!
Hell yeah brother.
My Motorola SLVR would blast “oh my god that’s the funky shit” from the Prodigy - Funky Shit sample of the beastie boys.
Let's not forget, you could also compose your own ringtones on those 😁. Well, that's what I did 😂.
A friend of mine had self-composed Darude - Sandstorm as his ringtone. Amazing shit
You still can if you want to. My phone uses an MP3 for ringtone that I selected. It's music that I wrote and recorded in my home studio even
I used to buy the songs that would play as my phone ringing. Like I'm not sure how to say it but when you called me you were forced to listen to a shitty song I liked instead of hearing the riiing riiing. Or when I called my weed guy instead of hearing the riiing or was 36 Mafia "where is the bud, where is the bud playing.
The good ol days of asking Jeeves to find you tabs/sheet music.
Yup that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up…
A story the descendants will need to have strong search skills to understand.
One day, Merv Griffin was going through his snail mail and found a hefty check to him from a company he'd never heard of.
He used the intercom to summon his assistant. They explained to him that his people had licensed the ' Final Jeopardy' music to be a ring tone.
Then they had to explain to Merv what a ring tone was.
I want to believe this but I don't want to search for it.
You can believe me. No body ever lies on the interwebs.
I'm sorry but paying for a rington was never cool. And it's not a generational thing, just gullibility
Just wait till you find out people also used to pay for backgrounds and emoji. Lol. Scams and viruses, the lot of them.
I was the guy that used audacity to make ringtones and then share them with as many people as possible. This was of course once phones could play actual music as ringtones.
I used to record the song using my cell phones microphone to ensure it was as low quality a possible.
Blast from the past moment. Took me 4 episodes of yugioh to be able to properly record the intro song so I could listen to it whenever I wanted. Took me 3 for Pokémon.
I used my brother's vinyl lp of the rocky horror show (Australian cast) to record toucha toucha touch me for my ring tone, and my voicemail message was sweet transvestite(just the "how'd you do" bit).
My God I feel old right now
They could. As long as they were midi files.
Never bought a ring tone. I just stuck with the default Canon in D.
not to brag but tabbed out Tool's Forty Six & 2 as my programmable ring tone myself
These days I don't even want a ringtone on my phone.
Mine's always on silent mode too.
i only unmute when i'm expecting an important call (like the pizza man at my door)
Back in that day, before everything had an app, most notifications were important
I remember in the era of 3310, there would be a spreadsheet for you to compose those pop song tune in a teen magazine. Simpler time.
Man, OPs caption unlocked a core memory I have of calling my high school boyfriend at 858 pm, and talking on the phone with him for about 2.5 hours before he got notified that he was under 10 mins left for the month.
We had thought he was only going to lose 2 of his minutes 😭.
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