My ringtone was a funky chiptune version of O Green World by Gorillaz.

      • UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world
        0·
        9 months ago

        I still have my phone set that way. I turn off all notifications that aren’t messages. Though, I guess now it all goes through my watch first.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
        20·
        9 months ago

        And before 99% of the calls and texts you receive were spam, political campaigns inevitably addressing you by the wrong name with heartfelt pleas for money, IRS scams, “Bob” from Microsoft technical support, Your Car’s Extended Warranty, AI generated robocalls telling you not to vote, or someone’s hysterical babymomma who refuses to understand that whoever she’s looking for might have had this number in 2007, but they don’t have it anymore.

        • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldEnglish
          16·
          9 months ago

          For a while I kept getting calls from this old lady who didn’t realize she had to dial an area code before calling her son. After the first couple I answered it and explained to her that she’s dialing the wrong area code, but she didn’t remember and kept calling me and I’d let it go to voicemail. They were pretty sad and I think she was just lonely and wondering why her son wasn’t answering.

          Eventually she stopped so I hope she figured it out.

          • limelight79@lemm.ee
            12·
            9 months ago

            You just unlocked a memory for me, and this happened from about 2008-2010 (not cell related, but it is phone related).

            One day we got home and there was a message on the machine from someone asking us to remember to bring something when we visited him. Unfortunately, we had no idea who it was, so we just wrote it off as a wrong number. It happened a few more times after that, and we were getting curious.

            I’d moved into the house in 2006 and received that phone number at that time. We often got calls from bill collectors looking for the previous residents, so we generally let everything go to the machine.

            One evening we got a call, and I think I recognized that the number was this person’s, so I answered it. I told him he had the wrong number, and he said he’d had that same number for years and read back my number, the one he’d just called. I was like, “Uh, I don’t know what to tell you, but I’ve had this number since 2006.” He tried a few more times, and it was sometimes late in the evening.

            At some point I looked up the number he was calling from and found it was a nursing home, and the pieces started to fall into place. My wife and I talked about it a few times, and we decided that if our relative was doing that, we’d want to know. We weren’t upset, but it felt like information the family should have. Who knows who else he might be calling, or getting calls from. So, we decided that when he called again, we’d call the nursing home and let them know it was happening.

            But, we never got the chance. He never called again.

        • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
          55·
          9 months ago

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        • FiniteLooper@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Do you have an iPhone? You can make your own!

          Settings > sound & haptics > [pick any tone] > haptics (at the top) > create new vibration

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Our pizza man doesn’t call or ring the doorbell. He sends a text and if you’re not down there in like 15 seconds he is GONE

  • ComradeR@lemmy.ml
    2·
    9 months ago

    I bought 2 ringtones on my Nokia 2112:

    Linkin Park - Numb

    t.A.T.u - All About Us

    It was funny to listen to them over and over!

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
    29·
    9 months ago

    i bought akon - lonely from a TV ad when i was a young teenager for my polyphonic nokia.

    what i didnt realise was it signed me up to a weekly £5 subscription and it racked up over £100 before my dad found out.

    Had to abandon that number and get a new sim

      • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
        1·
        9 months ago

        I think their only recourse was that there was the asterisk with the subscription verbage in really tiny fine print that was only visible if you had an 80" projector TV

        • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
          1·
          9 months ago

          i was well below the age at which i could enter into a legally binding contract so there was also that. but we didnt fight it, we just threw the sim away and forgot about it

          • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
            1·
            9 months ago

            Lol I feel ya. My brother did something similar with an SMS catfact-esque subscription in the days where sms wasn’t free, our mom was about ready to kill him. Problem was that it billed to the carrier, and so it was like $10/month on top of per message fees, and the carrier didn’t bill it until like 6 months later

      • gerbler@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        The massive block of fine print at the bottom of the screen. Things my preteen self would not take notice of.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    20·
    9 months ago

    A story the descendants will need to have strong search skills to understand.

    One day, Merv Griffin was going through his snail mail and found a hefty check to him from a company he’d never heard of.

    He used the intercom to summon his assistant. They explained to him that his people had licensed the ’ Final Jeopardy’ music to be a ring tone.

    Then they had to explain to Merv what a ring tone was.

  • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
    56·
    9 months ago

    Man, OPs caption unlocked a core memory I have of calling my high school boyfriend at 858 pm, and talking on the phone with him for about 2.5 hours before he got notified that he was under 10 mins left for the month.

    We had thought he was only going to lose 2 of his minutes 😭.

    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      9 months ago

      I stayed with Sprint through years of them being the shittiest in my area because I was grandfathered into an old plan with free nights starting at 5pm. Just taking non-stop at 6pm like a baller.

      • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world
        61·
        9 months ago

        Oh yeah those were the days!

        Now you’ve gotta pay me a hecking salary for me to use the damn TELEPHONE function. Ew

  • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
    1410·
    9 months ago

    I’m sorry but paying for a rington was never cool. And it’s not a generational thing, just gullibility

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      When I was young I would edit my own mp3 to make ringtones and figure out how to transfer them to my phone.

      Now I’m old and I work and I don’t have time, so I’d rather just pay for it.

      Of course I don’t even do that because I don’t give a shit and just keep the default one.

  • JCreazy@midwest.socialEnglish
    59·
    9 months ago

    I was the guy that used audacity to make ringtones and then share them with as many people as possible. This was of course once phones could play actual music as ringtones.

    • KrankyKong@lemmy.world
      35·
      9 months ago

      I used to record the song using my cell phones microphone to ensure it was as low quality a possible.

      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        161·
        9 months ago

        Blast from the past moment. Took me 4 episodes of yugioh to be able to properly record the intro song so I could listen to it whenever I wanted. Took me 3 for Pokémon.

        • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
          4·
          9 months ago

          I used my brother’s vinyl lp of the rocky horror show (Australian cast) to record toucha toucha touch me for my ring tone, and my voicemail message was sweet transvestite(just the “how’d you do” bit).

          My God I feel old right now

  • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    9 months ago

    Let’s not forget, you could also compose your own ringtones on those 😁. Well, that’s what I did 😂.

    • KingJalopy @lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      I used to buy the songs that would play as my phone ringing. Like I’m not sure how to say it but when you called me you were forced to listen to a shitty song I liked instead of hearing the riiing riiing. Or when I called my weed guy instead of hearing the riiing or was 36 Mafia "where is the bud, where is the bud playing.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      You still can if you want to. My phone uses an MP3 for ringtone that I selected. It’s music that I wrote and recorded in my home studio even

  • Noodle07@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    I never cared much about my ringtone but I got used to “dream it possible” so now I keep using it 🤷

  • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
    16·
    9 months ago

    Don’t forget ringback tones so u could force anyone who called to listen to a scratchy version of a shitty song any time they called. My sister still had hers til like 2015 or something.