As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do

  • @[email protected]
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    618 months ago

    As most of the other comments point out, pocket TV did exist and you have exposed yourself as:

    1. Younger than the smartphone
    2. Never watched a 90’s movie with a security guard in it
    • @BeatTakeshiOP
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      8 months ago

      Both wrong

      1. 1st smartphone Galaxy Spica age 26

      2. These TV wouldn’t fit in your jeans

      You missed the point of my very unelaborate shower thought. I see how not being a thing could be understood as never existed. I meant a big thing like, you know, smartphones

      • @MrFappy
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        318 months ago

        Watch season 1 episode 8 of friends, Joey has a pocket tv to watch the football game at a funeral.

        • @ChicoSuave
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          108 months ago

          And that was mid 90s, 10 years before the hand tablets of today.

        • @BeatTakeshiOP
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          -68 months ago

          (…)a big thing like, you know, smartphones

      • @RampantParanoia2365
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        38 months ago

        I’m unsure what you think Netflix or YouTube TV are, but they are indeed on my smart phone, which goes in my pocket.

      • @spongebue
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        18 months ago

        Cargo shorts were in style at the time, so there’s that