When l first entered the work force, only those few years ago.!!! I can remember we would have to do a monthly back up of the computer at work and you would go and get what looked like 5 33 1/3 vinyl LP records stacked on top of one another in a tupperware container. (david stop laughing) You would have to get another person to go with you as they were too heavy to carry by yourself. Those were the days (or not).
Then as time goes on how things have become more compact and small. Take the first mobile phone which was the size of a brick and to now as small as you want, and you don't have to stand on the highest point with your arms as antennas to get any reception at all.
Back in 1982 ET: The extra Terrestrial has to use a normal landline to call home.
1984 - The film 16 Candles is the first to feature the DynaTAC 8000X. Samantha Baker's love
interest Jake Ryan has a cellular phone in his dad's Rolls Royce. Still a rich kid's toy.
1987 - In the first Lethal Weapon film Sergeant Roger Murtagh uses one of the early, large
portable phones from its shoulder mounted carry case to discuss with a psychologist that
he suspects that Sargent Martin Riggs, his partner, is insane.
1990 - In Beverley Hills 90210 there is a division between the rich and poor kids at Beverley
Hills High based on who has their own mobile and who doesn't.
1990 - Viv (played by Julia Roberts) in Pretty Woman is out shopping when she passes two
guys in a car trying to hold on to their greater-than-fist-sized phones. And they think
they are so cool, but not today.
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