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

[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

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

This sort of icon is still used in software all over the world:

I honestly couldn't tell you the last time I used a floppy disk.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

Not if c/fuckcars gets their way.

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

[flyingsquid@lemmy.world]

Don't forget the china, me old china.

[rottingleaf@lemmy.world]

And the girl a handmaiden

[sir_premiumhengst@lemmy.world]

Died to become the icon of saving!

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

WERKING!!!

[billhead@sh.itjust.works]

I hear the snake/dragon. Quick, press the button and count how many "bips" you hear to see if you have enough arrows!

[siegfried@lemmy.world]

I can, 2007... I used them as fkashdrives for school cause it looked cool and a flash drive was a luxury in my country. I lost a lot* of info because of an error and never used one again

[big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space]

I think video is still referred to as "footage". That is, how many feet long the tape is.

[big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space]

They held like 100M. They were gargantuan.