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		lucozade on Oct 26, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest ... I'm pretty sure that he was just making a joke about how unsophisticated we are. Digital watches being relatively new and a bit, well, crap back then.

lmm on Oct 26, 2016 [–]

Not "a bit crap"; rather they were the cool new thing that everyone haw to have. Kind of the iphone of their day.

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