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