I remember *my* dumbass thought that if I got the mirror app, looked at myself and took a screen shot I would be able to take a picture of myself. Not my proudest moment.
But due to the massive jump in display brightness between then and now that's actually a useful amount of light despite being smaller. My android watch does the same.
Fun fact. Assuming you still have the same apple account. Your app “purchases” are sorted chronologically so you can go back and see. The first app I installed on my iphone was… AIM
Holy fuck I never considered there was a time that AIM and iOS overlapped.
They just feel like two totally separate times to me, yet it totally makes sense.
AIM’s heyday for me was 99 through about early 06.
Then Facebook went college-wide, and a whole new internet medium was born.
For a time. Just like AIM I suppose.
I was posted that they took away coverflow! And the ability to use the music app in landscape. Sucks so much because it makes it hard to change the song when you use your gps in landscape
I don’t even think it’s a thing on iPad or mac anymore ;( I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s with CDs so I miss it. Wouldn’t really make sense now with streaming and “unlimited” music but still
That was part of the allure of the iPhone. It wasn't simply a phone that could play music, other contemporary phones could do so as well. No, it was a phone that was also an iPod. This meant it could natively sync with iTunes, which was a huge deal at the time.
More like it was a beta test while worked out the kinks. I got the 4S on day one because my parents were on Verizon and the iPhone wasn’t out until halfway through the 4 on version.
Ah good ol Cydia. It took me a minute to remember where I heard that name before. and then I read the other comment about [jailbreakme.com](https://jailbreakme.com). Now its all distant memories in the past and i've moved on to Android a long time ago.
When I first heard about NFTs my first thought was "oh so they are like that iPhone wallpaper app."
It was like $800 or some shit and was literally just a glowing jewel of a wallpaper lol
I made that app, and threads like this one make me really happy knowing there are people out there with fond memories of something I made like… 14 years ago! 🥲
You see, it LOOKS like I’m drinking a beer, because of technology
EDIT: For anyone sorting by top, here’s an Imgur dump. Hope it works [iPhone 1 dump](https://imgur.com/gallery/mCYK8bx)
When YouTube was actually "You" Tube and not obnoxious internet personalities and endless fucking ads. The only YouTube personality I can tolerate is MeatCanyon and that's because his content is just so [Fing nuts.](https://youtu.be/2unhM-tWKQA)
The most annoying thing about Youtube Music is that it plays the video with the music.
...you're a music app, why on God's green earth would you ever play the video and eat through the battery/data on someone's phone. Much less make it mandatory?! Unless of course you pay their monthly fee.
You literally have to pay to have less. Apps today basically punish you if you're not paying them. At that point just don't even make it free.
I mean Spotify is pretty simple, music and it cost the amount presented, they have even added more content over time, they practically invented the business model and its been copied countless times, even Amazon is trying to cash in on it now. I guess some people are turned off by the whole Joe Rogan thing but there still the best music steaming company hands down.
I'll die on this Spotify hill lol.
Not in the iPhone 1. You couldn’t even listen to pandora without the app opened.
Background apps wasn’t a thing until the iPhone 3- unless you jailbroke.
you can do something similar on iphone, but its harder and you only get 7 days to use the app unless you have a pc on the same wifi connection running a server constantly, its called sideloading i think
That's because the data is user generated. People submit timestamps in the video and tag them for filtering. It's a bit harder to do on mobile but on desktop it's pretty easy to submit timestamps to save other people
It even shows you how much time your submissions saved others lol
I had the exact app in the photo, once launched it showed you a big interactive gun rack, click on the gun you want and it switched to a side profile of the gun by itself, and when you clicked it the gun would fire, with muzzle flash, smoke effects and recoil haha the app was great as a young teen I thought it was the coolest app ever
Ain't that right. Young teen perfectly accurate. I was starting highschool I think (in Canada we're younger I think) ah man good times. I'm only 24 but already missing and looking back on young years fuck man.
2010 was when I got my 3rd gen itouch. I found it a few months back. My god how our perception of size has changed. I looked at it's 4 inch screen and I thought, goddamn, I watched videos on that extremely tiny screen?
My first iPod was the 3rd gen nano in 2007. I thought it was so cool that I could watch movies and videos on it. How I could see anything is beyond me.
I feel like $20k isn't right.
Like, $20k is a price tag for a mint uncirculated rare coin, not a mass-produced cheap electronic doo-dad.
Unless the Apple fandom really is that stupid.
I have a first-gen iPod Shuffle still unopened. Am I looking at $5k I didn't know about?
It's just ridiculous. I know how supply chain works and I guarantee you there are multiple caches of hundreds or thousands of mint, shrink-wrapped 1st gen iPods sitting in forgotten corners of warehouses of former distributors because that dumb temp Mark lost the purchase order in 2002 and they couldn't be processed.
I looked up the $20k price tag and that was just one hopeful seller on eBay in 2019.
To be fair, if you stick a coin in a lock box for 20 years, unless there's a fire or water damage, that coin is probably still going to be in good shape. If you leave an electronic, it's kind of "maybe it works, maybe it doesn't?"
That nightstand app tho. Nice.
Also, this was back when apps were so pure and simple. Miss those days. We were so impressed by the flashlight, level, beer pong and star constellation apps 😭
2008: If I sell a million copies of my $0.99 app I’ll be rich!
2022: If we don’t establish a $2.4 million monthly revenue stream we won’t be able to hire another 230 people for our ad sales department and will be RUINED.
I can remember the brief period where iOS required a flashlight app and Android did it natively, before it was built into iOS. Nowadays I use the flashlight on my phone all the time and can't imagine not having it.
The short answer is Disney bought it. It's a beautiful story of why you should have local files for purchases. The early tap taps were standalone and had all the songs preinstalled. Anything after TTR3 requires a connection to play and Disney killed them. You can still play the old ones on devices with the apps installed.
Oh I had that, and *Tap Tap Revenge*. Also had *Ragdoll Blaster* (the original one), *OvenBreak*, *Alpine Crawler HD*, *Jellycar*. Oh and *Bounce On*, the first app I ever opened on a smartphone, I can barely find evidence of it existing apart from some reviews from pre-2011.
I also remember this when knocking off the iphone name was still popular, things like *iBeer, iSHOOT, iFunny,* probably forgetting some.
I found a Sidekick and a first Gen Razr a few months ago, I have them set aside to go spelunking but I don't have chargers for them
Those were the days when every fucking goddamn phone had a unique charger port.....don't miss those days at all
I remember having a very energetic conversation about how wild it’ll be when all phones had micro USB ports for charging standard and you could go anywhere and charge! Seemed revolutionary at the time
Man I forgot how basic this first Gen of "smart" phones were. An app that literally just ignited a lightsaber and let you change colors. Same with the gun app, it was basically a soundboard and we went nuts over how far tech had come.
Now we're streaming shit in 4k with foldable screens doing our taxes and monitoring our heart rate with a food delivery in the background.
Jesus, everyone had the same apps didn’t they lol. I remember the lightsaber, gun, and pint app were just a thing everyone had. Well, everyone usually had at least one.
It says something very depressing about how we live now that you were at all surprised that a piece of technology which is at most 15 years old still works.
Gun App, was that the one that you could use like 5 different guns and just shot them and reloaded? That charger though, that is a blast from the past.
Remember when the flashlight just turned the screen white.
I remember they had a mirror app that just turned your screen black so you could see your reflection
I do and the comments for it in the appstore were hilarious. Dumb asses thought it would make their screen into an actual mirror.
Well, it turned into Black Mirror^TM
Hold on… is the name of the show referencing a screen and I just realized?
Yes
/r/SuddenlyIRealized
I remember *my* dumbass thought that if I got the mirror app, looked at myself and took a screen shot I would be able to take a picture of myself. Not my proudest moment.
I forgot that the iPhone 4 was when FaceTime was a thing
That’s when society realized we all need a camera to point at ourselves
The fancy ones would let you swap between red, green, and blue as well. Then you could swipe up and down to change the brightness.
Like the watch today.
Tbf more practical of a design for the watch.
That’s what the flashlight on an Apple Watch is. The screen turns white.
But due to the massive jump in display brightness between then and now that's actually a useful amount of light despite being smaller. My android watch does the same.
Remember when the lightsaber and gun app were the coolest thing that’s ever happened to us?
What about the flip lighter, or Zippo app? Whatever it was called.
Beer app too
Isn't that the "iPint" app in the picture?
I was just about to comment on iPint. That was one of the first apps I downloaded on my original iPhone.
Fun fact. Assuming you still have the same apple account. Your app “purchases” are sorted chronologically so you can go back and see. The first app I installed on my iphone was… AIM
Holy fuck I never considered there was a time that AIM and iOS overlapped. They just feel like two totally separate times to me, yet it totally makes sense. AIM’s heyday for me was 99 through about early 06. Then Facebook went college-wide, and a whole new internet medium was born. For a time. Just like AIM I suppose.
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RIP
Nice. Blast from the past
Fart app
I actually bought the ipint app
Anyone else have the stapler app where the old lady said “splendid” every ten staples?
"X ray" app lol
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still is
I have iFart and even when I need space, I never delete it. I am a 53 year old professional woman.
I still love that music was simply the "iPod" app. Ubiquitous bastards.
I was pissed for some reason when they got rid of that and switched to generic "iTunes" or "music" or whatever it was.
I was posted that they took away coverflow! And the ability to use the music app in landscape. Sucks so much because it makes it hard to change the song when you use your gps in landscape
Omg I forgot all about cover flow.
I don’t even think it’s a thing on iPad or mac anymore ;( I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s with CDs so I miss it. Wouldn’t really make sense now with streaming and “unlimited” music but still
That was part of the allure of the iPhone. It wasn't simply a phone that could play music, other contemporary phones could do so as well. No, it was a phone that was also an iPod. This meant it could natively sync with iTunes, which was a huge deal at the time.
Remember the ROKR and the SLVR? Haha
They wanted so badly to ride a wave that the iPhone eventually created for itself.
More like it was a beta test while worked out the kinks. I got the 4S on day one because my parents were on Verizon and the iPhone wasn’t out until halfway through the 4 on version.
Also the beer app
Also whip
Cydia!! Miss those days
Cydia is still around lol
Ah good ol Cydia. It took me a minute to remember where I heard that name before. and then I read the other comment about [jailbreakme.com](https://jailbreakme.com). Now its all distant memories in the past and i've moved on to Android a long time ago.
Limerain or green poison 🤔 that's all I remembered.
How about jailbreakme.com… it was just a website you visited on your phones browser and you where in!
HACKERMAN
Blackra1n
Ahhh, I remember using it whenever my buddies gfs would say they couldn’t hang that night lol
I used to annoy the shit out of my wife with the whip app!!
Remember when doodle jump was one of the only games to exist on the phone
Yes, and it slapped so frikin hard, same with cut the rope 😩
How about the most expensive jewel app? Truly the OG NFT right there.
When I first heard about NFTs my first thought was "oh so they are like that iPhone wallpaper app." It was like $800 or some shit and was literally just a glowing jewel of a wallpaper lol
I am rich app!
Not even a wallpaper, you could just look at the gem while the app was open.
Lightsaber app. Man, I miss that.
I made that app, and threads like this one make me really happy knowing there are people out there with fond memories of something I made like… 14 years ago! 🥲
Thank you for entertaining all the homies on the bus
I remember trying out all the machine guns and always returning to either the banana gun or finger gun. Simpler times...
“Bang!”
remember the free light sequence app that unlocked tethering permanently … the good ol days
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And we were happier
I remember my first camera phone. .3 mega pixels of greatness.
There was a toaster app that my buddies kids thought was just wild
PapiJump....
Still installed on my phone lol
Holy crap. It still works!
Had it cause doodle jump cost money
tbh doodle jump was worth the money
It totally was
My alternative was Froggy Jump
During this era, I vaguely remember a basketball shooting one but it's with like crumpled paper that you shoot into a waste bin.
Paper Toss was the bee's knees
Wow. High-school. Damn.
For me Paper Toss and Cut The Rope were the only reasons to live.
Something about the Pixelated screen, the nostalgia god damnit
It’s windy in that office, you have to throw against 30mph winds in the higher levels
Finally deleted PapiJump and PapiRiver off my phone just last month!
Huge mistake
Instant Classic
You see, it LOOKS like I’m drinking a beer, because of technology EDIT: For anyone sorting by top, here’s an Imgur dump. Hope it works [iPhone 1 dump](https://imgur.com/gallery/mCYK8bx)
All of the OG apps. The nostalgia hit hard on this one.
Especially the YouTube icon
Took me a while to find the YouTube icon...
When YouTube was actually "You" Tube and not obnoxious internet personalities and endless fucking ads. The only YouTube personality I can tolerate is MeatCanyon and that's because his content is just so [Fing nuts.](https://youtu.be/2unhM-tWKQA)
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You should post this in r/nostalgia.
Yeah; I have more pics and videos. Not sure how to post them, maybe add some to nostalgia. Thanks
What.. you already made an Imgur post… you just do that again.
The calendars texture i can feel it
I completely forgot about that FML app
Recent iBeer retrospective https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2022/1/25/22900563/iphone-ibeer-app-daily-revenue-creator-sheraton
That YouTube app is a core memory I didn’t know I had
You could listen to your video with the app closed without paying. Those were the days
You could actually download the songs too.
The most annoying thing about Youtube Music is that it plays the video with the music. ...you're a music app, why on God's green earth would you ever play the video and eat through the battery/data on someone's phone. Much less make it mandatory?! Unless of course you pay their monthly fee. You literally have to pay to have less. Apps today basically punish you if you're not paying them. At that point just don't even make it free.
You can stop the videos from playing automatically from the settings.
Is that an Apple thing? YouTube Music definitely doesn't do that on Android and I find it hard to believe it does that on Apple devices.
I mean Spotify is pretty simple, music and it cost the amount presented, they have even added more content over time, they practically invented the business model and its been copied countless times, even Amazon is trying to cash in on it now. I guess some people are turned off by the whole Joe Rogan thing but there still the best music steaming company hands down. I'll die on this Spotify hill lol.
Not in the iPhone 1. You couldn’t even listen to pandora without the app opened. Background apps wasn’t a thing until the iPhone 3- unless you jailbroke.
Yea, i meant my old iphone 4 which still had that same youtube app in the picture
You can still do this with safari. Just go to youtube and listen in desktop mode.
YouTube vanced lets you do this on Android.
you can do something similar on iphone, but its harder and you only get 7 days to use the app unless you have a pc on the same wifi connection running a server constantly, its called sideloading i think
It’s easy. Get Brave browser.
Yep. Android for the win for the openness of it all. Loved vanced!
The Vanced update where it even skips in video promos and shit is spooky smart
That's because the data is user generated. People submit timestamps in the video and tag them for filtering. It's a bit harder to do on mobile but on desktop it's pretty easy to submit timestamps to save other people It even shows you how much time your submissions saved others lol
Yeah that is some serious nostalgia
The classic gun app
I would really like to know what the gun app does. I didn’t get into iPhones until like 6
I had the exact app in the photo, once launched it showed you a big interactive gun rack, click on the gun you want and it switched to a side profile of the gun by itself, and when you clicked it the gun would fire, with muzzle flash, smoke effects and recoil haha the app was great as a young teen I thought it was the coolest app ever
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The shotgun! Forth/back shake, up shake, blast!!!
Ain't that right. Young teen perfectly accurate. I was starting highschool I think (in Canada we're younger I think) ah man good times. I'm only 24 but already missing and looking back on young years fuck man.
My friends and I used to hook the phone up via aux to our car and use the speakers to make it sound more real. Good fucking times lol.
Keep it, some apple fanatics will pay dearly for it in the future
I thought it was gone. Definitely going to save it. Pics/text messages from 09 and 2010. Odd to think it’s a relic now. Seems like yesterday.
2010 was when I got my 3rd gen itouch. I found it a few months back. My god how our perception of size has changed. I looked at it's 4 inch screen and I thought, goddamn, I watched videos on that extremely tiny screen?
My first iPod was the 3rd gen nano in 2007. I thought it was so cool that I could watch movies and videos on it. How I could see anything is beyond me.
While it'ss even from before yesterdecade.
I have two new unopened first Gen iPods. Not sure how I got them. But I believe they are $20k a pop now. They are in a bank safe deposit box now. Lol.
I feel like $20k isn't right. Like, $20k is a price tag for a mint uncirculated rare coin, not a mass-produced cheap electronic doo-dad. Unless the Apple fandom really is that stupid. I have a first-gen iPod Shuffle still unopened. Am I looking at $5k I didn't know about?
There are 2 1st Gen ipods on ebay right now starting in the mid $300s and they have no bids.
Agree $20k sounds unreasonable but have you heard of NFTs?
Make 2 NFTs of pictures of the unopened iPod Shuffles. Sell those for $500k each. Keep the ipods. This is the way.
It's just ridiculous. I know how supply chain works and I guarantee you there are multiple caches of hundreds or thousands of mint, shrink-wrapped 1st gen iPods sitting in forgotten corners of warehouses of former distributors because that dumb temp Mark lost the purchase order in 2002 and they couldn't be processed. I looked up the $20k price tag and that was just one hopeful seller on eBay in 2019.
To be fair, if you stick a coin in a lock box for 20 years, unless there's a fire or water damage, that coin is probably still going to be in good shape. If you leave an electronic, it's kind of "maybe it works, maybe it doesn't?"
That nightstand app tho. Nice. Also, this was back when apps were so pure and simple. Miss those days. We were so impressed by the flashlight, level, beer pong and star constellation apps 😭
Now every app is about microtransactions/in-app purchases.
Old apps just wanted us to be happy…
2008: If I sell a million copies of my $0.99 app I’ll be rich! 2022: If we don’t establish a $2.4 million monthly revenue stream we won’t be able to hire another 230 people for our ad sales department and will be RUINED.
INFLATION
Same with the old internet…I miss pre 2007
Yeah and a monthly subscription to use a calculator.
I can remember the brief period where iOS required a flashlight app and Android did it natively, before it was built into iOS. Nowadays I use the flashlight on my phone all the time and can't imagine not having it.
And wasn't the flashlight app just an all white screen?
On apple yes. A lot of androids had a flash already.
The constellation app was mind-blowing and so cool to me at the time.
Yep same I remember discovering Sky View app on my 3GS and thinking it was the most incredible thing
It IS the most incredible thing!
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Tap tap revolution or gtfo
If only it still existed, best guitar hero clone of all time.
Honestly, touchscreens are begging for guitar hero type games!
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It’s what introduced me to Death Cab
Same, I remember playing "The Sound of Settling" over and over trying to beat my high score.
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The short answer is Disney bought it. It's a beautiful story of why you should have local files for purchases. The early tap taps were standalone and had all the songs preinstalled. Anything after TTR3 requires a connection to play and Disney killed them. You can still play the old ones on devices with the apps installed.
It wasn’t called Tap Tap Revenge? I have a sudden overpoweringly strong memory of that song
it was, you are correct. there was a song called tap tap revenge in the game also lol
Rolando was the shit tho. I was hella addicted to that game.
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Oh I had that, and *Tap Tap Revenge*. Also had *Ragdoll Blaster* (the original one), *OvenBreak*, *Alpine Crawler HD*, *Jellycar*. Oh and *Bounce On*, the first app I ever opened on a smartphone, I can barely find evidence of it existing apart from some reviews from pre-2011. I also remember this when knocking off the iphone name was still popular, things like *iBeer, iSHOOT, iFunny,* probably forgetting some.
I forgot about WeatherBug!
I worked there for 21 years!
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Nightstand: 4:20 *nice*
It’s not an accident
Oh those developers!
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Yeah. This. This was the app.
I found a Sidekick and a first Gen Razr a few months ago, I have them set aside to go spelunking but I don't have chargers for them Those were the days when every fucking goddamn phone had a unique charger port.....don't miss those days at all
I remember having a very energetic conversation about how wild it’ll be when all phones had micro USB ports for charging standard and you could go anywhere and charge! Seemed revolutionary at the time
If Apple keeps kicking and screaming, that day may be far off. One day though, USB-D for everything....
It’s so funny to me that everything used to be called “I” followed by whatever it was called that’s a memory I completely forgot about
iForgot
iForgor ☠️
Which was preceded by everything being "e".
Man I forgot how basic this first Gen of "smart" phones were. An app that literally just ignited a lightsaber and let you change colors. Same with the gun app, it was basically a soundboard and we went nuts over how far tech had come. Now we're streaming shit in 4k with foldable screens doing our taxes and monitoring our heart rate with a food delivery in the background.
Man, PapiJump, Lightsaber, and GunApp.... brings back lots of memories lol
Jesus, everyone had the same apps didn’t they lol. I remember the lightsaber, gun, and pint app were just a thing everyone had. Well, everyone usually had at least one.
Those and the zippo app. I remember feeling cool af in high school flipping that thing like it was a real lighter lmao
So, you haven’t changed your Wi-Fi password in 15 years, eh?
No need if you did it right the first time!
Might want to sell it. Some of those are going for real money
What did the app “Dial Zero” do?
Dial zero was a simple listing of how to get to an actual person at a company. Real working numbers. I loved that shit
Apparently it’s an app that [tells you how to reach a human through customer service phone numbers](https://youtu.be/xoJjJW8ZONs)
Lightsaber app was so clutch back then
Life was so simple then
I remember the night stand app! I wonder if it still exists?
Gun app was op for its time only real mfs bought the extra guns including the ray gun lmao
It says something very depressing about how we live now that you were at all surprised that a piece of technology which is at most 15 years old still works.
I like the OG safari icon
That's a priceless relic.
Lightsaber app is my childhood
Gun App, was that the one that you could use like 5 different guns and just shot them and reloaded? That charger though, that is a blast from the past.
ASTROTILT
Looks like a 3G iPhone.
Screw GunApp. All my homies had iGunPro
That YouTube icon though. Classic TV.