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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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As most of the other comments point out, pocket TV did exist and you have exposed yourself as:
Both wrong
1st smartphone Galaxy Spica age 26
These TV wouldn't fit in your jeans
You missed the point of my very unelaborate shower thought. I see how not being a thing could be understood as never existed. I meant a big thing like, you know, smartphones
Watch season 1 episode 8 of friends, Joey has a pocket tv to watch the football game at a funeral.
And that was mid 90s, 10 years before the hand tablets of today.
(...)a big thing like, you know, smartphones
I'm unsure what you think Netflix or YouTube TV are, but they are indeed on my smart phone, which goes in my pocket.
Cargo shorts were in style at the time, so there's that