• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Apple has a big office in Cork with several thousand employees. The “i” in iPhone stands for Ireland, and this is the early prototype.

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    7 months ago

    This was a real phone that you could buy from (I believe) the national carrier in the late 80s / early 90s.

    I didn’t know anyone with one myself but I do recall seeing them for sale and I’m pretty sure it was in the telephone book that I saw it (that was how you chose your phone in those days for most people).

    We just had a shite beige one with the same receiver and buttons but it did do the beep boop instead of the tok tok tok which was great. Old people will understand.