heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 day agoYes, the NSA really did ban Furby from its premises in 1999feddit.ukvideomessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up1102file-text
arrow-up1102videoYes, the NSA really did ban Furby from its premises in 1999feddit.ukheythatsprettygood@feddit.uk to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square10linkfedilinkfile-text
In case you were wondering, yes, GCHQ banned them too. This incident also led to one of the funniest FAA papers ever.
minus-squaremakeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoRecording and playing back absolutely could be done, but learning words the way people said they were at the time was probably too tricky
Recording and playing back absolutely could be done, but learning words the way people said they were at the time was probably too tricky