Word: pda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman looked at me and nervously smiled as they parted. I don't know why she smiled at me--I wasn't the one kissing her. All I wanted was my laundry, but I instead fell victim to an epidemic which plagues Harvard: public displays of affection (PDA...
Earlier this decade, the concept of the "personal digital assistant" (PDA) was born out of a very '90s sense of frustration. PDAs were originally designed to be one step ahead of their owners: to be a literal assistant, taking your data and processing it for you to make better sense of your life...
Early reaction to the PDA concept was mixed at best, stand-up routine fodder at worst. Apple's doomed Newton fell faster in the marketplace than even gravity would have predicted, and companies like Psion and General Magic struggled with earning acceptance for their designs...
Telecom standout U.S. Robotics has made a surprisingly strong entrance into the PDA market with the Pilot Organizer, sold by their subsidiary Palm Computing. At the same time, industry behemoth Microsoft is getting ready to jump into the fray with Windows CE, an operating system for PDAs that might bring some interoperability into the market...
...idea is to stuff as much information and as many communications tools as possible into a small package -- called a personal digital assistant, or PDA - - that will perform dozens of tasks for the user. More advanced versions, weighing less than 2 lbs., can operate off a regular phone line or cellular connection and send and receive faxes, voice mail or E-mail. They can be used to keep appointment schedules, expense ledgers, addresses and phone numbers, as well as large digitized documents...