Calling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".

[meyotch@slrpnk.net]

I have yet to be actually paid for any hand job, in the USA or Germany.

[dasus@lemmy.world]

I'll bet younger people have never thought about what that thing is even supposed to be.

Oh cmon.

Yes, this supposedly (according to some meme) happened with the save symbol, because a floppy is actually something a lot of today's people have never seen or touched.

That sort of a handset for a telephone though? Do you think they haven't seen shows or movies? Never saw a playset with a very classic model plastic phones?

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Hand Terminals imply you no longer have local storage, which wouldn't describe smarphones today.

Also, I hate the idea of a "Hand Terminal" where everything is on the cloud. I mean...

::: spoiler spoiler
Eros Incident, comms all dead. Screen doesnt even turn on.

With actual phones, they could've used something like Briar!
:::

[dubyakay@lemmy.ca]

Even my two year old can recognize a telephone handset, pick it up and hold it to her ear while saying "Hewwo?"

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Since you are British, international law allows you to call it a "wireless" if you like.

[algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org]

I enjoy my China, and also my China, and how could I forgot my China...

[fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk]

Thank you, and I shall do so. Very much appreciated

[krudler@lemmy.world]

It's hard for people to understand, but there was a time from the late 70's to early 80's where after a screen "transition" whatever came up next on the screen was called a "new page".

So if you were playing Intellivision AD&D going in a dungeon from the overworld was a "new page". Or playing Karate Champ.... going from the Title Screen to the Fight Mechanics part was thought of as a "new page".

[giveover@feddit.uk]

One time I heard a colleague called the settings/gear icon in Windows a flower. I've also heard somebody refer to the PuTTY icon as "the two penguins"

[alexisfr@jlai.lu]

Didn't we had Personal Digital Assistant before?

[ayyy@sh.itjust.works]

Do we not call them webpages still?

[fades@lemmy.world]

They explicitly are talking about movies and nobody uses the term page when talking about different scenes anymore.

How does the internet fit in here? They’re not saying we as a society moved away from the concept of pages…

[link@rentadrunk.org]

Are we referring to this icon? Found here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY

If so I see no resemblance with a penguin at all.

[giveover@feddit.uk]

Yep that's the one. It was on the taskbar so significantly smaller than it looks here. I think he thought the lightning bolt was the beaks.

Sometimes late at night I squint my eyes to look at the icon and, for a fleeting moment, I can see two penguins.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

I thought he was talking about vodeo games......you know.....because of all the video games he mentioned.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

So either your friend has terrible eye sight, was high, or is an idiot.

[archer@lemmy.world]

Ironically the Brits got this right with “mobiles”. What’s the key characteristic of a cellphone? That it is portable and mobile.

[nepenthes@lemmy.world]

Intellivision was a game console that came with the game Burger Time. It had many amazing (for the time- 1980s) games, such as Snafu, Metroid, and Maze of the Minotaur.

I still have mine, but it no longer works.

[idkwhatusernametoputherelolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

but the key characteristic of a car is also the mobility.

[cycadophyta@lemmy.cafe]

I call mine Tim