LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agoCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".message-squaremessage-square50fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down12
arrow-up136arrow-down1message-squareCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".LovableSidekick@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square50fedilink
minus-squaregibmiser@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days agoIt should have been PDAs. For some reason that just didn’t catch on.
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days agoThey didn’t catch on because in the era they existed it was very difficult to achieve any kind of connectivity with them to the outside world. By the time that was able to be ubiquitous, smartphones were already happening.
It should have been PDAs. For some reason that just didn’t catch on.
They didn’t catch on because in the era they existed it was very difficult to achieve any kind of connectivity with them to the outside world. By the time that was able to be ubiquitous, smartphones were already happening.