Well, in 2003 we still had a "film" camera. Digital was still not up to the quality that my techno-geek dh wanted at a price we could afford. Also, I didn't start regularly carrying a cell phone until Aug 2003 -- I was due Sept 1 and my dh finally nagged me enough that I remembered to charge and carry it regularly. I still only use about 15 min/month on average.

I'm trying to remember when we went to roadrunner over modem... I think it was earlier since dh is an IT professional and works a lot out of our home, buuuuuut IIRC I think a lot of other people still had dial-up. My eldest is 16 1/2 and still doesn't have a cell phone. Now the day he gets off his heiney and gets his license we will get another phone, but it will be a "family phone" -- so much easier to monitor that way.

We don't live in a large city, but the combined metro area of 3 small cities is a few mill so I wouldn't say we were "small town", either.

I was going to say that there is something really cool about old school film cameras.. but yeah.... digital and Charlie equal no, I guess... XD

I thought about that, too. I was shocked she didn't get a digital camera. But I agree, it needed to be a film camera for the story. A digital one wouldn't have worked. I guess in 2003, you could still buy a film camera easily -now it's hard and digital cameras are cheap. However, I"m not sure where he would have gone to get it and why a digital one wasn't suggestd. As for cellphone, I wasn't that surpirsed by it because she lives in such a small town. I understand about cellphone reception but don't the Cullens all have cell phones and don't they work?