[1stcity3rdcoast]

I used to call Uber in the early 2010-2012 days on my Blackberry by texting my current location. Worked great even without an app.

[SilasX]

Yep! You can see the option in this cache of the site from January 2011:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110109084838/http://www.uber.c...

[pmart123]

Interesting. I didn't know that. I wonder if there was any 00's era startup that tried to create a taxi hailing service prior to the app store developing? My gut says the iphone/app alongside location data was critical for widescale adoption.