Source: Yu Ji
In the seventies, a telephone appeared in the village. As a small part of the group, I have come all the way from pull-line telephones, public telephones, big brothers, BB machines, mobile phones, and smart phones to feel the great changes of the times.
Wang Jiuyun | Written by Watermelon | Layout 01
Telephones were a rarity in the seventies and eighties
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Just as the lights were about to go out, the mobile phone WeChat rang in a row. I know that it is my niece who sends WeChat in the relative group again, she is in Western Europe, playing a time difference of more than seven hours in China, whenever we want to sleep, the photos or small videos of her life are a long string.
A small mobile phone, we are on this side of the earth, she is on the other side of the earth, she can broadcast live with a light finger, let us stay at home, not tired of the locomotive, you can enjoy the exotic style, this is amazing! I turned off my phone and my mind pounded on "Forty Years on the Phone."
"Upstairs and downstairs, electric lights and telephones", this is a phrase I used to say in my childhood. But the concept of "telephone" is not at all. In those days when there was a shortage of food and clothing, I only fantasized about wearing a new dress and eating white noodles.
In the 1970s, the village erected a telephone pole, a long telephone line, from the township to the village, and the telephone was installed in the brigade office.
This kind of telephone set is a rocker, the handset is on top, when calling, the left hand presses the earpiece, the right hand shakes the handle, shakes and releases, the earpiece is pointed to the ear to listen, and then there is a receiver who to find.
In the 1980s, the shaker was replaced by a dialing keyboard, and the front of the telephone set was pressed on a disc, and the ten empty discs were aligned with 0-90 numbers, and when calling, a finger reached into the hole to dial the number, and the dial dial was made. Later, it was changed to pressing the keyboard.
The telephone is mainly to receive notifications from the township, and sometimes the loudspeaker in the village also shouts XX to the brigade to answer the phone, which is the only communication device in the village that connects to the outside. But it's very difficult to get home on the go.
In 1984, my colleagues and I went to Shanghai for half a month of training, because when I went there, I only took 200 yuan with me, bought a tweed coat at a department store in Shanghai, and suddenly spent 90 yuan. There are still ten days of training tasks, can't go home? Borrow it, colleagues don't take much, let the family send some money.
Find a closed telephone booth on Nanjing Road, a person drilled in and first called the post and telecommunications office, and then the post and telecommunications bureau connected to the township switchboard, the switchboard was transferred to the village, tossing and turning in the middle of the night, either waiting or breaking the words, and then the voice was too small, your voice was hoarse, and the other side was still "ah, ah", "hey, hey". In the end, the money was not received, so I had to hold more than twenty yuan to save money to spend, and then I set aside the money for the ticket home.
In the 1990s, people's living standards gradually improved, some of the wealthier families have installed program-controlled telephones, the village also has a public telephone, the city roadside telephone booths have also increased, magnetic cards can be plugged in to talk.
However, sometimes you have to wait in line for a long time, and when you encounter young people cooking porridge on the phone, it is even more anxious. In the mid-nineties, there was a black thing the size of a brick around the waist of a business in the village , big brother, which was a symbol of status and wealth. If someone passes by with a "big brother", they will earn enough envious eyes: "Sigh, look at the squeeze!" ”
Speaking of which, I also sighed. In 1995, the education front suddenly engaged in "Pujiu" (popularizing nine-year compulsory education), in order to facilitate contact, the principal of the central school ran to Wuxi, equipped the branches with a fake big brother - walkie-talkie, I took it with me, and I felt that my identity was suddenly rich.
However, when it is fine, it buzzes a few times from time to time, as if brushing its existence; when there is a problem, it is either impossible to get through, or it is a group chat, which can be heard by anyone with a walkie-talkie, and there is no secrecy.
I don't know if the walkie-talkie is like this, or the principal was pitted, anyway, the ten that time Bought at once did not play a role, and the last 800 yuan walkie-talkie, selling waste products no one wanted.
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The more mobile phones develop, the smarter they become
What will the mobile phone of the future look like?
In 1996, the township education office equipped each school with a BB machine, also called paging. When there is a notice, the whole township school will be called at once, and when we receive the call, we will immediately find a public telephone to call back. My pager number was 5912100-17283, which I still remember.
It took more than a year, and I changed it to Hanxian out of my own pocket, which was smaller than the original paging, like a matchbox, and when there was a message, Chinese characters would pop out on the blue screen.
This is artificial paging, opening the other party's machine number, telling the message to the operator, and then the operator calls hanxian.
At the beginning of the new century, homes have installed landlines, mobile phones have also been popularized to the middle level, and the transformation of big brothers is small and exquisite, which is both beautiful and easy to carry, and has increased the function of sms.
The first text message is Pinyin, came the text message, a row of letters that are not case-sensitive, and there is no interval, making people look headache, pondering for half a day, like guessing puzzles, sometimes copying pinyin down, several people to study a text message. It didn't take long for the phone to have the ability to spell Chinese characters.
Speaking of this feature, my lover and I also had a joke once. Before the Spring Festival in 2001, I bought a TXL mobile phone, clamshell, silver-white body, crimson cover, chopstick head thickness antenna with fingernail cover length, looks stylish and elegant, I love it.
That year, my son worked in Changzhou and did not return during the Spring Festival. Because we just lived in the living area, there are no acquaintances, no one visited the New Year on the first day of the New Year, just me and my lover at home, just lie on the bed fiddling with the newly purchased mobile phone, somehow spell out a "Han" word (lover's last name).
Surprised, I tried to spell out his name and my name, and we both looked at each other and laughed: God! What more to write? The lover said, write "wedding anniversary of the two people". After I spelled it out, I wanted to save it, but I didn't know what key I pressed, and suddenly it was gone. It was a pity that it was difficult to spell it out, so I had to start all over again. Just spelled, one press and gone. Never again.
The lover said, no, just practice your hands. The phone rang suddenly: "Dad, Mom, what are you doing at home on the first day of the first year?" Sent several times! "I dizzy! It turned out that I wanted to save it several times, and I sent it to my son.
Didn't take a few years, I changed the straight board Samsung, when to change the smart phone has not remembered clearly, only remember once my daughter took a newly bought smart phone to me to talk about WeChat function, said WeChat is more convenient than text messages, can transmit photos, small videos, can video chat, voice calls, but also send red envelope transfers ...
At the instigation of my daughter, I changed to a 5.5 Huawei smartphone, because I needed to take a lot of photos to play headlines, and directly bought a high-pixel dual lens.
Originally wanted to smart phones afraid of playing, did not expect that half a day less than half a day without a teacher, in addition to taking photos and playing WeChat, but also mobile phone Taobao, do photo albums, do color TV, earn traffic, K songs or something, young people will be I, young people will not be I will, my life is colorful, heart to heart sigh that our generation has caught up with the good times.
Because 4G mobile phones often prompt insufficient memory, the more used the slower, some time ago, and changed Huawei memory 6G + 258G, dual SIM dual standby. Think about it, plus the fake big brother and BB machine, accompany my "darling", the new mobile phone is already the seventh bar. Although it is far from catching up with the speed of young people's updates, it is enough for me to be proud of the post-50s.
Looking back on just 40 years, the telephone has fundamentally changed people's lives from rockers, dials, program control, BB machines, big brothers, PHS, to smart phones; from small memory to large memory; from literal to audio-visual synchronization.
Walking on the street, everywhere you can see people chatting on the Internet with their mobile phones, taking pictures, brushing codes to pay, once popular bank ATMs, now almost unattended, China has entered the era of cashless, which is a huge change that could not be imagined 40 years ago.
I often think that now that China's comprehensive national strength is so strong and the speed of development is so fast, in another 40 years, what should the development of mobile phones look like? If heaven can leave me for another twenty or thirty years, or how many times I can see.
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