Not too long ago, having the internet on your mobile phone was a luxury. But as is typical with technology, it has become something we take for granted. I
Not too long ago, having the internet on your mobile phone was a luxury. But as is typical with technology, it has become something we take for granted.
I got my first phone after starting year seven at high school. That was back before phones had fancy names like the Galaxy or Pixel – all I know is that it was made by Samsung and it had a cool blue LED light that flashed upon receiving a text message.
My trusty Samsung was light on features in comparison to today’s phones. By that, I mean it could send text messages and make phone calls, came with a couple of built-in games and had a pretty killer alarm clock. But it had one feature I considered groundbreaking: the internet.
At the time, circa 2007, using the internet on your phone was a bit different to how it is today. Of course there was no Instagram or Twitter or Buzzfeed to visit, but that’s not what I mean.
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Unless you were rich, the chances are that your mobile plan probably didn’t include any internet data. If you were lucky enough to have sufficient data, the experience wasn’t all too great. You would type a web address and watch in awe as the webpage unravelled on-screen like a rusty garage door. Back then it wasn’t so much web surfing as it was web chugging.
That terrible experience was made possible by second-generation and third-generation (2G and 3G respectively) – cellular technology created to increase the speed and responsiveness of wireless data networks.
