Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for July 30, 2024
July 29, 2024
July 31, 2024
Transcript:
scrappy lad: look, cap, I got me one of them new smartphones!! It's got email, texting, internet, calendars, schedules, maps....with all this technology, I can't fail!! captain: Well, that's-- scrappy lad: will you show me how to turn it on? Captain: ....smart.
Strip from 2010. I’m trying to cast my mind back 14 years to remember just how amazing this would have been at the time. We now take those features for granted but they seemed impossible at the time… I just can’t remember when that was at the moment. I had a trac phone in 1994, but it didn’t anything but make calls with a b&w pixel screen. I still thought it was pretty amazing to have a phone in my pocket.