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Time capsule: do you need a mobile phone?

Cell phones in 1999

You couldn't be more wrong! Check out how people answered the question of whether they needed a cell phone in their lives in 1999. At that time, mobile telephony was still in its infancy and we could only use them to make calls and send SMS, so the answers were expected and diametrically opposed to the answers we would get from people today.

Do you need a mobile phone? Today, everyone would answer this question in the affirmative without thinking and with one voice. A in 1999 it was different.

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Mobile phones from the beginning of the new millennium cannot be compared to today's.
Mobile phones from the beginning of the new millennium cannot be compared to today's.

Today, cell phones are still called phones, even though it is the ability to call is just one of many options, which it offers. Once, however, this was their main and practically only trump card. But let's leave the details aside and jump in Dutch streets to 1999, when cell phones were really just cell phones and people answered the question in the title. Check out what they had to say.

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