Snake. Polyphonic ringtones. Infrared. To a certain crop of millennials, those words will mean very little – but to those of us who grew up in the ’00s with Nokia 3310s and Motorola flip phones, they were just small elements of mobile phone culture that seemingly dominated our lives at the time.

At the time it felt like we’d reached the pinnacle of mobile technology, and though the 3310 is making a comeback, many of the phones are sadly obsolete now. Luckily though, they’ve been immortalised in these throwback lyrics and they’ll make you want to chuck out your smart phone and dig out your trusty old brick. 

“There’s only music so that there’s new ringtones” – Arctic Monkeys, ‘A Certain Romance’

What’s changed: Polyphonic ringtones are gone and we’re all stuck with dull default ones.