Flipping for Flip Phones
Smart phones weren’t actually the first phones to let you get on the Internet, just the first phones to do it well. Some old flip phones had Internet capabilities as well. Well… “capabilities” is a big word.
Connecting to the Internet via an old flip phone was painfully slow, and it was insanely expensive. Unless you were an important businessman, you never used that feature, unless you hit the button on accident. Then all you could do was close it as fast you could, or for extra speed, just rip out the battery. Better than paying all that money for something that wasn’t going to work anyway.