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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by tyingq on Monday August 16, 2021 @09:47AM (#28197993)
>The peak was, I think, when I accessed Excel over Citrix while sitting in the airport waiting for a flight.

I never had a N900, but I have a similar memory of fixing a work problem while traveling in the late 90's. I used a terminal on a Palm Pilot over a dial-up modem, typing into a shell using the "graffiti" handwriting. It was...painful and triumphant all at once :)

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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by reaperducer on Monday August 16, 2021 @10:27AM (#28198523)
In the early 2000's, I did my company's payroll using a Sony phone (maybe an M600c — the one from the James Bond film), while on a hydrofoil between Hong Kong and Macau. At the time I thought, "The future is finally here!"
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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by jareklupinski on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:48PM (#28202763)
Ah, making me remember trying to monkey patch a script over ssh on my Blackberry Storm...

At that time I felt the future of system administration meant taking the manual things I could do over a smartphone and abstracting them into lists of tappable buttons, like "Provision Web Server" and "Set Up New Developer".

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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by 908B64B197 on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:56PM (#28204431)
The Storm is quite infamous because it launched at the same time as the iPhone 3G.

Curious why you bought it instead of the iPhone.

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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by tyingq on Monday August 16, 2021 @07:57PM (#28204438)
At the time, it was much better for email if your backend was Exchange.
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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by jareklupinski on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:49PM (#28212718)
family plan was on verizon :(
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Re:Nokia 9000 Communicator was launched 25 years ago by rcarmo on Monday August 16, 2021 @09:54AM (#28198099)
Yes, but I was doing that on a 9110, I think. Had a decent terminal if I wanted to use telnet :)
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