Sounds just like when I actually used Geocities. The nostalgia factor alone makes me want to see this happen.

Alternately, time travelers from far off in the future making their initial runs ( aka 'learning curve' ) may not have enough anthrolopogical data to make an accurate assumption about styles and devices of the time period they entered.
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In the 20th through early 21st centuries, people carried around large computers equipped with 'radio wave' transmitters, then called 'cellular phones', which allowed them to speak with eachother at a distance. This was of course long before telepathy was perfected and shortly before the advent of the global computing chip insertion process had come to fruition. The 20th century was surely the turn of the tide toward the exponential techonological growth leading toward this golden age!

For references to this device, please access the global directory tree 'historic communication' or 'historic computation'. It is recommended when collecting props for your venture to maintain a generic yet authentic presence. See the files under 'Android' for examples of common characteristics of these devices.
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That's probably an entirely unnecessary degree of resolution.

If we imagine that each 'pixel' is comprised of an individual R, G, and B subpixel, your 'camera' will have triple the resolution of your screen's native resolution.

I think 1 sensor per RGB cluster is plenty fine.

Just to be nitpicky.. the Great Library was only accessible by the wealthy upper class (of riches or heritage). Not that the nearly ubiquitously illiterate lower classes wanted to use it, but they couldn't if they did. Maybe with the guidance of a well positioned upper-class member, at a premium price of course.

These are the exact reasons I'm waiting for a comparable Android tablet.

You get the watered down GUIfication element, where anyone can pick it up and it 'just works'

You also get the ability to really dig in via the ADB console or terminal apps.

I'm certainly no majority example, but this seems to me to be 'done right', and I'm excited to buy one for my girlfriend.

Until a good KB dock-type attachment comes out for Android tabs, however, I've got no real use for it - I spend a vast majority of my 'computing' time using the keyboard, to a point that I've gotten a full-size USB keyboard to attach to my laptop which also has a full-size keyboard that just isn't quite as comfortable.

Until I've got that same flexibility with a tablet, it's just not my thing. My girlfriend is of the opinion that iPads are too locked down, and therefore useless, and she's 1/10 the computer nerd that I am.

Theoretical Physicist != Applied Physicist

One's a monkey spending it's days imagining all the useful tools it could create, while the other is perfecting the art of cracking a nut.

fits squarely in the stuff that matters, but no, not news really.

"Any significantly advanced technology..", yadda yadda, you all know the quote.

To anyone living prior to the 1900's, television, the internet, cell phones.. they'd all be magic. You could certainly try to explain the technology away, but likely the explination would also be significantly advanced enough to be percieved as magic. Electron tunneling whoosawhatsits? I just wants my fancy movin' picture porn to come on over the tubes and light up my screen!

Autoresponder loop wars! Now they might even catch fire!

I can see it now..

"Somebody help me! I'm out of paper and I've got a SPOOLER ERROR!! Why does it hurt?!"

It is weird, and there have been a lot of complaints in the past about accidentally receiving messages, and also a good bit of concern about 'what happens if spammers start using text messages?' On previous phones / plans I've used, you can see a brief 'preview' of the message before 'accepting' it, allowing you to opt out of the recieve charge. Most current smart-phone based plans, however, have unlimited text to avoid the fact that the carrier usually cannot control this aspect of the phone on those devices.

Menu -> Settings -> Applications -> Manage Applications -> Scroll down and select HTC Sense -> Clear Defaults. Hit the 'Home' key afterward and you'll be presented with a choice of which home 'application' to use.

And then they all left, for absolutely no raisin.

The sap who accepted the offer surely does now.

Easy. They paid for a lead, not for a 'device'. The 'device' was given to them, and mystery bar shopper walks away with $5k for his time.