# Things that date movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2011, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-date-movies/574465 "2011-03-12T23:42:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-date-movies/574465/141 "2011-03-16T03:58:21Z")
> [@FordTaurusSHO94](#): > > Elaine was talking on a cell phone once and Jerry said it was rude, so at least one character had one. IIRC, that was the final episode. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-date-movies/574465/142 "2011-03-16T16:48:55Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > We had voicemail through AT&T for a number of years. We hated it. The commands were strange and unintuitive, and once you saved a message, retrieving it was a PITA. We actually switched to a cordless phone with a built-in digital answering system a few months ago. I’ve got a similar system. Sure, Comcast offers me voice mail, but theirs is a pain and I don’t like it. So I use the digital answering system on my cordless phone instead, and like it much better - it’s got a blinking light that tells me when I have a message! With the Comcast system, I’ve gotta pick up the phone to hear the weird beeping dial tone that’s supposed to be my alert, and I don’t call people much. It could be weeks! Anyway, I don’t use the voicemail. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-date-movies/574465/143 "2011-03-17T01:14:22Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > Or rather, it’s not so much that it didn’t exist, as that it did exist, but sucked. It’s only now that all this shit actually works. Plus cell phones got ridiculously cheap. In the 90’s, you were still charged by the minute. As little as a year ago, someone apologized for using up my minutes. I used a pager up until 1999 or so, and the monthly bill was about the same as ~2000 cell phone plan. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-date-movies/574465.md?page=7)