Lovable Sidekick to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agoCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".message-square55fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down12
arrow-up142arrow-down1message-squareCalling modern cellphones "phones" is like when old Star Trek called their little plastic data slabs "tapes".Lovable Sidekick to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square55fedilink
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minus-squareUndeariuslinkfedilinkEnglish6•6 months agoPortable Handheld Omnidirectional Networking Equipment is also pretty long, we could probably shorten it.
minus-square@Archer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•6 months agoIronically 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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minus-square@TheTetrapod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•6 months agoTo pull terms from a couple different sci-fi book series I like, we could go for Hand Terminals or Scribs. I like both, the former when I’m being grandiose and the latter when I’m feeling cute.
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Portable Handheld Omnidirectional Networking Equipment is also pretty long, we could probably shorten it.
We could make that an acronym!
This guy phones.
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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Not if c/fuckcars gets their way.
PSPC w/ TRC lol
To pull terms from a couple different sci-fi book series I like, we could go for Hand Terminals or Scribs. I like both, the former when I’m being grandiose and the latter when I’m feeling cute.
Didn’t we had Personal Digital Assistant before?