Spot on
Posted by stankybuttmud@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 62 comments
Posted by stankybuttmud@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 62 comments
Jokierre@reddit
Going to have to give credit to the ol’ Inspector for this tech. I’d say Dick Tracy, but that wasn’t video.
NottingHillNapolean@reddit
Dick Tracy's 2-way wrist TV introduced in 1964
balding_git@reddit
“A 1962 episode of the animated TV series The Bullwinkle Show depicts the villain Boris Badenov using a 2-Way Wrist TV approximately 18 months before it appeared in the Dick Tracy comic strip. When his accomplice Natasha comments on his advanced technology, Badenov says "I'll show that Dick Tracy!"
musashi-swanson@reddit
NottingHillNapolean@reddit
This needs to get voted higher. Sorry I'm too lazy to create a bunch of dummy accounts.
elkniodaphs@reddit
Jokierre@reddit
It did have video, then? OK!
NottingHillNapolean@reddit
Not originally, but they upgraded.
redditcreditcardz@reddit
Gosh, how did I forget about Penny?!? Man, I’m getting too old.
JRockPSU@reddit
I LOVED her computer book as a kid. Wished so bad I could have one.
nocapnonerf@reddit
I have a sudden urge to watch Inspector Gadget now 😢
bosco9@reddit
That book she carried was practically an iPad so she invented that too
DangerousLoner@reddit
But you have to ask yourself, What If Penny Met a Dinosaur?!
The_same_potato@reddit
Yep, and even less buttons.
Deep-Interest9947@reddit
Agree penny did it first.
ZeddRah1@reddit
Um...
oddmanout@reddit
That's in the future, though.
clan23@reddit
23rd century to be precise. The image shows the latest invention „Group Chat“. Stay tuned for more.
melanthius@reddit
Star Trek had zoom meetings onscreen in the bridge but they certainly did not have handheld FaceTime
jbp84@reddit
God…even in a utopian post-scarcity society they still have Zoom meetings…
Dark_Shroud@reddit
Really Facetime and not Skype? Lets also pretend that video phones were never a thing while we're at it.
AT&T had the Picturephone out in 1964.
tocra@reddit
I swear this was magic to me. The fact that we do video calls today is mind boggling to me.
kbm81@reddit
They did
imhighonpills@reddit
It was cool then
DecoyOctorock@reddit
“Yo April, u up?”
H_M_N_i_InigoMontoya@reddit
Y'all have never heard of stark trek huh?
Finger_Gunnz@reddit
Guess you never realized it takes place in the future.
ouijahead@reddit
I thought it was in a galaxy far far away. Star Battles.
space-to-bakersfield@reddit
Galaxy far far away is Star Wars. Star Trek is set in our galaxy.
three-sense@reddit
Video call technology is mentioned in many sci-fi narratives long before tmnt
bynaryum@reddit
Is that the crossover where Iron Man visits the Enterprise?
LightboxRadMD@reddit
When I was a kid, "video phones" were like this mythical technology that never quite could get off the ground. There were several attempts, but it just never hit. Then smart phones came and it was like, "Here. Here's all the scifi nonsense you want. Put it in you pocket and complain about it when it gets slow."
pinkocatgirl@reddit
It's kind of funny how video chat was originally just a cinematic device that allowed you to film two people talking to each other over a distance who can see each other and react as if they're in the same room. It's much more natural for us as viewers to watch a 2 way conversation versus a one way voice only one.
JoshSidekick@reddit
Facetime isn't cool, though.
catchinNkeepinf1sh@reddit
It was cool, but so far fetched that i knew it would never happen.
balding_git@reddit
but it did happen
Dramatic_______Pause@reddit
/r/woosh
roberrrrrrt@reddit
lol. I had that toy
Danceking81@reddit
And they did facetime without WiFi
0sqs@reddit
Does facetime require wifi? Serious question, I've never used it.
balding_git@reddit
generally yes, because it uses a lot of bandwidth and data, and cell providers are slow and greedy
archiekane@reddit
A data connection.
MediocreRooster4190@reddit
r/2001aspaceodyssey
Ghosts_of_the_maze@reddit
I feel like “putting something in a cartoon” isn’t quite the same thing as inventing a new gadget.
mastawyrm@reddit
Everything apple does was invented before they used it
x_Jimi_x@reddit
Meet George Jetson…
RedSix2447@reddit
The video wall/wall phone. This was attempted by meta/facebook. I forget what it was called though. It failed miserably. lol
Finger_Gunnz@reddit
He already had the tech…it was 2062.
Biscuits4u2@reddit
I remember being blown away and excited at the prospect of a device like this when I was a kid. Now I would never choose this over texting or talking on the phone.
TheRealUmbrafox@reddit
Err, I'm Gen X but Dick Tracy was the one who really invented this, back in the 1930s-40s
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Pretty sure DT only had a two-way wrist radio. Even 60's batman only had the BatPhone.
jusxchilln@reddit
facetime is cool?
Dando_Calrisian@reddit
It was cool as it was turtles
TacosAreJustice@reddit
The exploratorium in San Francisco had video phones in the early 90s…
prguitarman@reddit
I want to say I remember the video game cutscenes talking to you in this format. Or a random TV would be playing the news, again in this format. That front facing profile “speaking to you from technology” thing was specific a style of storytelling back then
aerodeck@reddit
Doesn’t make any sense “invented it before it was cool”
garygnu@reddit
sassypants450@reddit
And Dick Tracy invented Apple Watches
full_of_ghosts@reddit
Where's the front-facing camera?
TheJustBleedGod@reddit
the screen also functions as a lens
TransCapybara@reddit
The screen is the camera. There’s sub pixel fiber optic lenses that coalesce into an image on the backend.
DJSfromthe1900s@reddit
Those buttons are so old school though...