Clive Thompson on Nostr: Okay, I watched "Blackberry" and it was *really* good Bonus points for attention to ...
Okay, I watched "Blackberry" and it was *really* good
Bonus points for attention to period-historical detail: In the early days of Research in Motion, everyone's using Norstar phones made by Nortel, the Canadian telecom then-giant
When I was doing student journalism at the University of Toronto in the late 80s and early 90s, these phones were everywhere
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