beth_hunt•1mo agoProlific Poster

Found my old Palm Pilot at my mom's place, the stylus still smells like the 90s

My mom was clearing out her closet last weekend and handed me a dusty Palm Vx from around 1999. I plugged it in out of pure nostalgia and it actually powered up after a few hours on the charger. The grayscale screen still had my old contact list, including my high school girlfriend's number and a to-do item that just said 'call Dave about the mixtape'. What got me was the graffiti input, I still remembered the stroke for 'L' within two seconds. It made me think about how my phone now does a thousand things but I can't even remember my own PIN without glancing at my thumb. I spent the next hour just reading old memos about cheap CDs and homework deadlines. Do you ever dig up an old device and feel like a time traveler, or is it just me? What's the oldest thing you've powered on recently?

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jason_fisher41mo ago

That bit about the graffiti input got me, I had a Handspring Visor back then and I can still do the stroke for 'E' without thinking about it. But the weirdest part was finding a voice memo I recorded of me practicing a song for a school talent show, my voice sounded exactly like my nephew does now. I ended up texting my old high school buddy a blurry picture of the screen with his name still in there, and we spent an hour laughing about how dumb we were.