Word: celle
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Zack Morris, A.C. Slater, Kelly Kapowski, Jessie Spano and, most especially, Lisa Turtle were always the coolest of cool. When Kelly wore tube tops and Zack pegged his jeans, teenage America knew how to follow. Additionally, Zack might have been one of the first people to use a cell phone as an accessory...
...When the first cell phone prototypes began to pop up in the public domain they were cumbersome, unreliable and just plain ugly. Even Zack Morris, the king of schoolboy cool was subject to carrying one of those bulky, box-like contraptions around Bayside High. Despite their countless flaws and unattractive facades these phones where the envy of every "Saved by the Bell" fan, and pretty much everyone else. Essentially, cells were the pinnacle of chic...
...Milan cafe without being drowned in competing phone conversations, the reason is not only that Italians like to talk. European wireless technology is simply more sophisticated and user friendly than that in the U.S. Europeans can already check e-mail and get news bulletins on their cell phones, and soon they'll surf the Net and shop online from mobile phones that double as fashion accessories...
...European Union in 1991. Thanks to GSM, a subscriber in Portugal can use her phone from Ireland to Hong Kong. The U.S., in contrast, still allows various incompatible standards to compete like trains running on tracks with different gauges. As a result, a New Yorker cannot use his cell phone in London and, depending on his carrier and his instrument, sometimes not even in St. Louis...
...long after winning the award for Best New Artist at the Grammys, Christina Aguilera steps inside a black superstretch limo and drives off into the Los Angeles night. Breathless (was it the respectful nods she got from Elton John backstage?), she picks up her cell phone and talks to her mom and then to MTV's Total Request Live host Carson Daly--you know, the people who really count on a night like this. Then she turns to the reporter in the car with her. "Did I sound O.K. onstage?" she asks. "I was in shock. I was preparing...