Attention Time Travelers: Your iPhone may not work in 1990

February 25, 2010 by Dr. Macenstein
Filed under: Apple Fanboyism, History, Slow News Day, iPhone, video 

I knew there was a reason I didn’t throw out my Motorola MicroTAC 9800X!

Faithful Macenstein reader Colin writes:

I was bored and trying to find something to watch on Hulu when I saw this:

I thought you’d get a kick out of it, apparently going back in time 17 years totally screws with the iPhone.

Wow Colin. You know, I’ve been bored before, but I guess I’ve never achieved the “Let’s see if there’s any old Journeyman episodes on Hulu” level of boredom before. Of course if any of us went back in time 17 years the first thing we’d do is try to find a way to buy as much Apple stock as we could… unfortunately we would die of Facebook and Twitter withdrawal long before we could figure out how to invest without the internet.

Comments

16 Comments on Attention Time Travelers: Your iPhone may not work in 1990

  1. Drew Caster on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 12:05 am
  2. Time travel screws with it so much it moves the home button to the top of the iPhone too.

  3. quinton on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 12:06 am
  4. last i checked the home button was at the bottom of the iPhone. apparently thats different in 1990 as well…

  5. Drew Caster on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 12:11 am
  6. Why is the word “travel” in my comment turned into a hypertext link ad? I hate you for doing that. I really, really hate you for doing that.

  7. KC on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 12:51 am
  8. “You’re”?? C’mon – this is a media site, right? :)

  9. darrell on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 12:56 am
  10. “old journeyman episodes” – there was only one 13 episode season. it was a good show. travel

  11. Camil on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 4:24 am
  12. I hate all you huluans, we can’t watch it in Europe!!!

  13. Rob on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 9:20 am
  14. And the bigger picture…this just proves that the iPhone does have bluetooth capabilities. Well, unless this is just a T.V. show…and this is all meaningless…carry on.

  15. Sven on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 11:28 am
  16. @Rob I don’t get your iPhone bluetooth reference. I owned the first iPhone and now own the iPhone 3G and both have had bluetooth capabilities since day one. I also have the Apple-made bluetooth headset for the iPhone…

  17. photogirl333 on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 12:37 pm
  18. it was a pretty decent show … but come one TV directors…. get it straight, Home button on the BOTTOM!!

  19. George Peter Gatsis on Fri, 26th Feb 2010 5:31 pm
  20. Could you please NOT post USA ONLY ACCESSed video clips.

    Your site is access all over the world…

    Be considerate to your ENTIRE audience.

  21. Patrick on Sat, 27th Feb 2010 8:58 am
  22. Could you please NOT post VISUAL video clips.

    Your site is access all types of people, some of whom cannot see.

    Be considerate to your ENTIRE audience.

  23. "Predictable But Fun" on Sun, 28th Feb 2010 2:50 pm
  24. Time travel also would mess with the iPhone gear as well ….imagine!

  25. Loweded Wookie on Sun, 28th Feb 2010 6:33 pm
  26. Considering I live in New Zealand and therefore I live in the future it turns out Hulu doesn’t work in the future therefore I can’t see if the iPhone doesn’t work in the past.

  27. Je Ants on Mon, 1st Mar 2010 2:09 pm
  28. Could you please NOT post content that uses FLASH.

    Your site is access by people who may not have a FLASH.

    Be considerate to your ENTIRE audience.

  29. Tony on Mon, 1st Mar 2010 4:53 pm
  30. What are you talking about with time travel? People with AT&T get that message all the time! #crappycoverage

  31. Hadee on Fri, 5th Mar 2010 12:11 am
  32. Why hulu you bastards?

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