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That's the article author Robert Standefer, I don't think he created Comic Chat, that was David Kurlander...

British influence?

I'm not sure the correlation holds up in Japan's case though

Magic Maze

Bananagrams

probably others from my shelves

Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta

jb?

e: oh, Johor Bahru, interesting

Great article. Nicely didactic without being overly verbose. I wonder what an article on the same/a similar subject written today would look like, and whether I'd still be able to follow it.

Probably because they find it uncomfortable to be pressed and the net result is a less productive relationship.

My Passport was my favourite phone ever, I think if apps like WhatsApp hadn't stopped supporting it I might still be using it.

I'm going to be that that guy and say "plank length" is probably constant for a given plank. Planck length, on the other hand... :)

My dad (who worked for BT in various positions) claims he was involved with the decision to move the exchange in our/their village from one end to the other. Coincidentally, closer to the end in which we lived, which I gather would have a non-trivial impact on our internet speed.

I think this probably coincides with the time period we got ISDN, very early, and I was amazed by the concept of _always connected_ internet. I can still vividly remember watching GoZilla download a game demo at 7kb/s, stunned and excited.

I also would have said "Sikh" and "seek" are homonyms until recently when I found out that Sikhs' preferred pronunciation is generally to sound closer to "sick" (aspirate the H if you like)

More people use their phones outside than use their desktop computers outside, though

More common in the UK