Couple engrossed in their wireless devices ignore each other (1906)

From A Century of PUNCH Cartoons. (Via Kip W)

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oasisob1

I call BS. One of them is obviously reading the latest Reddit post, and the other is looking at LOLcats.
- DreamboatSkanky
  
  Just look at her look at that banana.
  - CaptainPedge
    
    Just look at her
Daniel Krause

Now THAT’S comedy!
- Roose_Bolton
  
  The Artistocrats!
showme

I want one of those head mounted antennas RIGHT NOW. Maybe then I’ll be able to pick up a Sprint 4G signal.

Oh, who the hell am I kidding.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefan_e_jones/ Stefan Jones

I like the hat-tenna.

Are those paper tapes they’re reading?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Agenbroad/100002463876063 James Agenbroad
  
  Presumably ticker tape. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticker_tape rather than punched tape. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_tape
  - kiptw
    
    The larger sizes at my flickr page show some readable text — hers of a romantic nature, his equine, as per the caption. (ps: I believe Punch will gladly sell prints of this at their inter-net page. Opinions from friends indicate this may still be in copyright, so I urge one and all to regard this single image as an advertisement for the volume it came from, and for Punch in general.)
- smut clyde
  
  TAPEWORMS INNA BOX.
Bob Williams

I’ve got that book and loved that one but didn’t upload because of copyright concerns.

Check out this one too from the Punch archive:

http://punch.photoshelter.com/image?&_bqG=0&_bqH=eJxtj1tPwzAMhX_N.rwCFVApD1niTYY1mXLpVF6sbZpgVTUu24Tg1xNXE1SAH5zvHOck8rJdXF4fTvnna77rbmi1XL88vB9PU1dflbflRTEu83GqEkl7JTbbj.55nyF5LQOMiklVjQotBobWbGg9sJpUbPKZbPgdhb9R.D.qMDT9ZyGNGZSNJriG0FuW1iGYNENrWKInB3OQHvRZLobaWxeEk.Y.65cjabQ4Jo4eHKEWkRdv79pd4db7Dh_TqEYXopyTnIFRDV_KSE0I08Mpesb4jW76gxWjVEEctqu3zVNW9.lZ3xX3L.oece8-&GI_ID=
- http://www.nathanhornby.com/ Nathan Hornby
  
  It’s OK because the person that uploaded it to Flickr and thereby agreed that they owned the rights to the image, stated the copyright terms in the description. And of course because BB credited the flickr page it’s all Kosher.
  
  /s
  - Bob Williams
    
    Yep, looks like they got that covered. I should have done the same. Do check out the link I provided for the Punch version of Skype (and weep at at the puny size of your screen).
http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

She’s receiving an “amatory message”. So they had creepy online stalkers even then.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Agenbroad/100002463876063 James Agenbroad
  
  What would sexting 1906 style read like? We HAD a copy of A Century of Punch Cartoons growing up and it was pretty neat, even if I didn’t really understand many of the older cartoons as a kid.
  - http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher
    
    “What would sexting 1906 style read like?”
    
    “Your bare ankles give me the vapors!”
    
    Only slightly more seriously that question reminds me of a very funny S.J. Perelman story about how he had a childhood crush on one of his teachers, and would “think of her figure often before falling asleep”.
franko

plus ça change….
http://twitter.com/sirkowski Sirkowski

The good old days…
http://profiles.google.com/peterk.vt80 Peter Kwan

A short dipole like that hat-tenna would work at about 200MHz. Pretty advanced stuff for 1906.
pjcamp

Antenna top hat?

Want!Want!Want!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=638717799 Tim White

Please tell me one of you DYI / Make types is going to put together a wireless box that prints out tweets on ticker tape; like the rotary cellphone…
- Jeff Blaine
  
  Been done. http://vimeo.com/32796535