Maritime Hashtag Minute – Sunday 21st April 2024

Each week, Ben Hopkinson looks back at what’s happened the past 7 days and what was trending on Twitter with the Maritime Hashtag Minute.

This week’s #MaritimeHashtagMinute was #CurrysMotorola, the technology store was running a competition to win a brand new Motorola mobile phone. To enter, you had to take a trip down memory lane to your first mobile phone. The competition closed earlier in the week. View the Tweets below:

My first ever phone was the Motorola startac in 1999, it was handed down to me by my mum #CurrysMotorola pic.twitter.com/6O5y8kTWZn

— Dominic Whymark (@WhymarkDominic) April 17, 2024

This baddie.
Numbers worn away by the end of use. Absolute brick babe ✌️#CurrysMotorola pic.twitter.com/DwDXeWK7L1

— Natasha Jane (@natashajparr) April 17, 2024

My first phone was one of these. A Sony Ericsson GA628. #CurrysMotorola pic.twitter.com/8haJx02Yl9

— Lord Biron (@TheBironicMan) April 17, 2024

It was one of the first ever video calling phones it looked like this but had a video camera built into the hinge so it looked up at you from the middle when the phone was open, I dont remember the name of the phone unfortunately.#CurrysMotorola pic.twitter.com/VCI9gj6KLR

— Ben Euden (@Euden) April 17, 2024

My first phone was this… and I miss how fun it was talking to myself it was such a simple life hahaha 😝 #currysmotorola 😂😭😮‍💨 can I get a rewind ⏪? pic.twitter.com/ltD0GQ70a3

— ohDearyme (@ohdearyme) April 17, 2024

This little HTC, which as you can see I still have! 😂
Can't remember the model but it has a cool rollerball to navigate the screen! 😬#CurrysMotorola pic.twitter.com/zF9PgYrCpM

— RestingWitchFace≅ (@VICTIM0FSOCIETY) April 17, 2024

It was a lime green Siemens, only good for playing snake 🐍 😂🤞🤞 #CurrysMotorola pic.twitter.com/FRyg3PF36F

— Jade Marie (@Jade_Marie_1993) April 17, 2024

#CurrysMotorola

Ericsson. My friends saved up Coca-Cola vouchers to help give me my first ever mobile (May 2000). pic.twitter.com/4HC05qZCDd

— Robert Dodd (@flygumbo) April 17, 2024

My first mobile phone was actually a Motorola! A blue one like this. My dad bought us all one for Christmas in the early 00s and we thought we were so cool 😅💙 #CurrysMotorola pic.twitter.com/m5eIXuRXw0

— Naomi (@noodlomi) April 17, 2024

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