How do you stay “missing” that long without being found? Like if you applied for a job / filed your tax return / got a credit card wouldn’t some system get flagged?
Cellphones existed in 2002. They weren’t smart phones, but we had mobile cellular devices. And MySpace. That was only a few years out from Twitter and Digg being released.
Good catch. I should have said smart phones. Cellphones were around, but think calls/basic texting, no cameras, no internet, no GPS.
Myspace launched in 2003, so it didnt exist. Friendster technically did, as it looks like it launced in march, 2002. Id still say that no, there was no social media of note in 2002, unless you want to talk about usenet/IRC.
You keep dating yourself. You must not have been around then.
Phones did have cameras in 2002. They were shit, but they were there. I think GPS started creeping into phones in the 1990s already
I think you’ve mashed 2000-2010 together into one big “cellphones had cameras and GPS before smartphones” year in your head. They were still very basic in 2002, most barely having web browsers.
I did not mash anything together. I was around then. Nokia did not innovate cameras or GPS, so it’s a useless example. In fact, I never even owned one: Motorola, Kyocera, Panosonic…
Yes, it’s almost impossible to get lost nowdays and it’s different than it was then. I do not disagree with your main sentiment, just the categorical portrayals
So you owned an uncommon phone with uncommon features in 2002, and youre using this to assert that these features were common at the time?
At a time when only 20-30% of people had cellphones, having one of the 5% of those cellphones with a camera or GPS was pretty uncommon. It means at any given point, less than 1% of people would be able to take your picture, much less post it to the “nowhere” that was social media at the time.
How do you stay “missing” that long without being found? Like if you applied for a job / filed your tax return / got a credit card wouldn’t some system get flagged?
You dont do any of that, for one, or you do it under a fake name.
It was also probally easier 24 years than it is now. No cellphhones, no social media, very basic digital cameras, almost no survelance cameras.
Cellphones existed in 2002. They weren’t smart phones, but we had mobile cellular devices. And MySpace. That was only a few years out from Twitter and Digg being released.
Good catch. I should have said smart phones. Cellphones were around, but think calls/basic texting, no cameras, no internet, no GPS.
Myspace launched in 2003, so it didnt exist. Friendster technically did, as it looks like it launced in march, 2002. Id still say that no, there was no social media of note in 2002, unless you want to talk about usenet/IRC.
You keep dating yourself. You must not have been around then. Phones did have cameras in 2002. They were shit, but they were there. I think GPS started creeping into phones in the 1990s already
Camera phones existed, but were very uncommon. Same with GPS. Nokia “candy bar” phones were the most common at the time.
I think you’ve mashed 2000-2010 together into one big “cellphones had cameras and GPS before smartphones” year in your head. They were still very basic in 2002, most barely having web browsers.
I did not mash anything together. I was around then. Nokia did not innovate cameras or GPS, so it’s a useless example. In fact, I never even owned one: Motorola, Kyocera, Panosonic… Yes, it’s almost impossible to get lost nowdays and it’s different than it was then. I do not disagree with your main sentiment, just the categorical portrayals
So you owned an uncommon phone with uncommon features in 2002, and youre using this to assert that these features were common at the time?
At a time when only 20-30% of people had cellphones, having one of the 5% of those cellphones with a camera or GPS was pretty uncommon. It means at any given point, less than 1% of people would be able to take your picture, much less post it to the “nowhere” that was social media at the time.
Friendster. MySpace came a year later. But even if we were talking about the '70s, we could still say cell phones existed
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