Before online mobile recharges became the norm, smartphone users would typically use a scratch card to top up their balance. A picture of one such Airtel scratch card has sent Indian Twitter on a trip down memory lane.
The picture shows a scratch card from Airtel offering 35 MB of 2G data for the price of Rs 9 only – exorbitant by today’s standards, no doubt. For a quick comparison, Rs 9 today would buy an Airtel customer around 500 MB of 5G data.
“Data prices in ancient India,” read the caption alongside the photograph as it was shared on the microblogging platform X (formely known as Twitter).
Data Prices in Ancient India pic.twitter.com/gMQG1xxCvB— Eminent Woke (@WokePandemic) December 27, 2023
The viral tweet sparked nostalgia as people reminisced about the time when using the internet on phone was an expensive hobby.
“Memories never fade,” wrote one commenter. “I bought Rs 199 Airtel 3G 1GB data for 24 hours in 2012 and I felt rich that time. I sold my books for it,” another revealed.
“I still remember saving up data to play Pokemon Go after school,” a third X user commented.
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