A restaurant table in 2011 with a toddler shouting at a phone and a cat shouting back, and the rest of the table pretending this was normal. The record notes it became normal.
Talking Tom
A grey cat that repeats what the player says in a high voice and can be poked, fed and dressed, later expanded into a family of apps and a cartoon. The record's entry for the app that every phone owned by 2011: it began as a novelty in a Slovenian studio, became a virtual-pet franchise with billions of downloads, and taught small children that a phone would talk back before any assistant did.
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4 entries · newest firstSomeone remembers the first time they made the cat say a swear word and their parent's face. The record files this under the app's universal first use.
Correction: the studio is Slovenian and the app was made in Ljubljana, whatever the cat's accent suggests. The record files the city because the cat has not.
The record notes that the original app did one thing, repeat speech, and that it did the thing well enough to become a company.
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