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When I was in high school, during the last 3 months of the school year ... I forget if they were the Army or the Marines, but they had a table with a display and two guys in the hallway right outside the cafeteria.
That waa back when the coolest phone you could have was a Motorola Razr and computers still had mice with rubber balls instead of lasers... MySpace era. So they just set up in the most highly foot trafficked area of the school.
Same, except it was one guy and the coolest phone you could get was a Nokia brick. It was a super poor school so no one had one.
I very much remember wanting to get the limited edition phone that they actually made, an actual working phone that was pretty darn close to the one the characters used in the 2nd and 3rd Matrix movies, haha.
/Then I would be cool/ rofl.
EDIT: Remember when people would actually clip songs or sounds and had to manually make them your ring or msg tone?
Nowadays everyone just pays for them.
You can still do a custom tone and what not, without paying, at least on android, but nobody seems to do that anymore.
You can do it on iPhone too, and I still do. Yeah, I know, I'm antiquated.
I like to set my default ringtone to silence, and then give known contacts a real sound for calls AND texts. I've been doing this for about ten years and the peace of it is fantastic. I didn't wait for Apple to do it for me, I just created a 2 second .wav of silence and then jumped through the hoops to get it on the phone as a ringtone and then set it to default. The very few times I've missed a first time contact that I actually wanted to hear from is nothing compared to the mountains of unwanted shit I've missed.
But there's a catch. Now, whenever I blow away the OS of an old device, I have to manually re-import my SilentRing.m4r since the devices are all still connected to my Apple ID -- it doesn't matter that my iPhone ring is silent if my iPad starts ringing anyway, lol.
Easy enough to do, though. I think Apple gives you the option of a default silent ring in the OS now, but for anyone who is using an older iOS or just wants to try it:
https://www.howtogeek.com/248489/how-to-add-custom-ringtones-to-your-iphone/
...optical mice are way older than Razr phones and Myspace
You are technically correct but id say optical mice were not exactly common generally in non collegiate school settings, or general consumer or general office use surpassing the popularity of the older mice till the late 00s, though of course there will be exceptions basically depending on how wealthy an area is.
the first Razr came out in 2004. Facebook, the thing that killed MySpace, required a coledge.edu email until 2006. Apple was still selling the Puck mouse in 2000, and Logitech introduced the first laser-powered mouse the MX 1000 in 2004. The death of myspace the track ball mouse and the heyday of the Razr phone all defiantly overlapped in the mid 2000s.