Thread: "Eventually They Have Phones You Carry in Your Pocket..." 📱🧵
Inspired by Nate Bargatze's joke:
"Eventually they have phones you carry in your pocket."
"How do they do it?"
"I don't know how they do it."
The funny part is that most of us use smartphones every day but couldn't explain them to someone from 1700.
Let's fix that. 👇
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