Word: notepad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entered the Paradise Rock Club as the only person of any non-Caucasian ethnicity at all. Actually, I take that back--there was one other Asian guy in the place, but he had a notepad and kept complaining to his friend how he'd never heard of this band, and that he'd rather cover the Mode reunion. Half the crowd had the look of a Whitesnake-Nelson doublebill audience, and the other half wore the J. Crew + Birkenstocks attire that infested the HORDE festival. Everyone came with their girlfriend--women who all got together and conspired to resurrect...
...about to leave for home (and planning to fetch your daughter from her violin class on the way) when you get called into a meeting with, say, the President. Sitting in the Oval Office with something that looks like an electronic notepad on steroids cradled in your palm, you discreetly dash off a message: "Running late. Be patient." With the tap of a pencil-like stylus, your note is beamed through the ether to the other side of town, where it lodges in a similar device, stowed in your daughter's book bag, and sets off a little beep...
...years of top-secret development, a start-up firm called Go, in Foster City, Calif., is set to unveil a radically innovative small computer. It offers a new way of interacting with computers -- one modeled not on the typewriter, as most conventional machines are, but on the standard paper notepad...