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

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

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

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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.

ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed

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

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I call mine Tim

Flying Squid

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.

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Not if c/fuckcars gets their way.

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Flying Squid

Don't forget the china, me old china.

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And the girl a handmaiden

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Died to become the icon of saving!

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WERKING!!!

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

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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

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

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They held like 100M. They were gargantuan.

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Contemporaneously, in some of Larry Nivens' fiction, it was called a "data brick".

When you feel like you are getting too attached to the meraphor of the hour, abstract it up a level.

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I also used colloquial. But then again auto correct is a bitch.