cross-posted from: https://mamot.fr/users/thibaultamartin/statuses/113879452911907737

Palms were offline devices that only synced with your computer when put on a docking station.

You could read and reply to emails offline, book or cancel meetings, and sync with your computer later. The latest versions allowed you to snap pictures and listen to your music.

No servers running constantly. No data spilled everywhere. Days worth of battery on a single charge.

The future stole our cables, and it took our attention span and our privacy with it.

#privacy #offline #data

  • mipadaituEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    I used to take notes on paper in graffiti cause it was kind of a pseudo shorthand.

    • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      My handwriting went from perfect block lettering (engineer/draftsman) to unintelligible scrawl when I learnt graffiti.

      I still try to use graffiti when I try to “type” on my AppleWatch.

        • noughtnaut
          1·
          8 months ago

          Yes, it was even perfectly official. Unfortunately, Android changed from under it and they never bother to update it so these days it will just fail to start.