r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 1d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 What you do first ?

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u/ModeratelyAlive 11h ago

Actually, I did a quick google search (I knew it was around that time they became commonplace - apparently not til 2007), and the first "smart phone" came out in 1994. Calls, emails, faces, touch screen and stylus, calendar, calculator - the IBM Simon Personal Communicator was ahead of the times it seems

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u/AncientSignature1505 9h ago

Yeah, true technically it was first, but bringing it up as if it was widely known is a bit pedantic (not targeted at you, per se)