Homelanders: Mid 90s or Mid 00s?

[The Wonkette]

(02-19-2017, 06:30 PM)ImpalaMama Wrote:  A decade ago, unless a teen was affluent, spoiled rotten, or a drug dealer they usually didn't have even a cell phone. Now kids in elementary school have smartphones. 

That isn't quite true, at least in my neighborhood (Northern Virginia). Back in 2006, when my 1994 cohort started middle school, she received a nice, shiny silver flip phone. The norm back then was that since middle school kids would be arriving home from school before their employed parents, they should have a cell phone. Of course, they used their cell phones to constantly text each other. And the phones were pretty basic -- you could phone, text, or take lousy pictures.