This reminds me of having a palm pilot as a teenager. It played mp3s, and had pdfs, but otherwise you could only take notes and fiddle with settings. I read all of the origonal halo books off of it.
On D day the USS Texas couldn’t physically elevate the guns any higher in their mounts to lob the shells at German positions as they retreated further from the ocean. So they intentionally took on water on one side of the ship, elevating the other side, and enabling the guns to shoot further.
The thought of having your digital foot print live on forever was kind of neat, but most of it wasn’t worth remembering or will probably get deleted after a few decades anyways. Future generations will ever know about the witty banter on yahoo answers.
Ooh, maybe I'll try a new font size (startrek.website)
CALL NOW! (i.imgur.com)
Cavity search (sh.itjust.works)
Transcription (of iMessage exchange): “Hi, is this Paul?...
Gotta stay grounded. (lemmy.ml)
Too damn high (lemmy.zip)
Reach out and touch them (lemmy.world)
Inspired (lemmy.world)
oof (slrpnk.net)
Does it not pierce thine very heart? (startrek.website)