Here's a little technological gem: an excerpt from
Micro Live, January 1985, wherein they first take a look at the current state of the art in novelty and feature phones, including one capable of storing hundreds of names and numbers, for easy dialling, before introducing a fascinating new radiotelephony technology based on the concept of small
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Technically speaking it wasn't actually new - cell phones have existed since the 1950s, at least (the exact date depends on when you want to start calling them that, of course; the transition from earlier technologies is fluid, with a large gray area).
That's not to say that these phones were "mobile" in the modern sense either - a cell phone in 1957 was perhaps not quite as small and portable as a smart phone in 2017. :) (But they were "mobile" in the sense of movable, e.g. by virtue of being built into cars.)
Still, a fascinating bit of history!
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Heh. I remember one of Mum's cars back in the late 90s (it was maybe from the late 80s) still had the handset for a car cellphone. =:D I rather wish the rest of the unit had still been there, but I believe it'd been removed before we got it.
An old friend wound up foisting an old Nokia on me (I wasn't one for phones then or now) - it functioned well enough, but I was still a bit disappointed it couldn't actually do anything more - I think it might have been able to do something along WAP lines, but that was ( ... )
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Re YouTube, youtube-dl seems to still work fine.
Are you on Dreamwidth? I can’t post to LiveJournal any more because I haven’t accepted the new user agreement, so I’ve had to stop cross-posting here.
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I hope your crackling worked out! It's so disappointing when it doesn't. I like the idea of beans with soft cheese.
I think I’ve managed to give you access to my Dreamwidth journal via your LiveJournal OpenID (I’m nou over there as well). (It’s kind of annoying that I can’t even post to tell people I’m no longer able to post, and also slightly weird that it’ll let me comment but not post.)
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Coffee which is lauded to taste like dirt? If the dirt is that good, why don't they just grind and sell that?
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- I had heard that about dilemna too! (i think we had it that way in grammar school)
- Sorry to hear about the lens failure.... some internal flaw in the manufacturing?
- That cel phone vid was quite a hoot! ...ahhh, the simpler days :>
- Got a kick watching the Zoot remix also!... mostly glad it sounded nice as well ^v^
- and yep, YT seems to act funny now and then, depending on the browser I use... :/
Good luck catching up!
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