More tech-using time travelers spotted in archival film footage

Xeni Jardin 1:04 pm Mon Nov 1, 2010

My co-editor Mark recently caused quite a stir here on Boing Boing when he blogged this highly controversial clip of a female figure clearly talking into a cell phone in 1928 footage of people lining up for the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's movie The Circus. There's a neologism for this stuff: Pluperfect PDA.

Disbelievers gotta disbelieve, but with a new week comes new evidence: not one, but two new videos of time-travelers in footage of yore. In the video above, a very, very early adopter of Apple products.

Special thanks to Bill Barminski for "research assistance." For all who seek proof, let us consider this "proofiness."

Now here's that second video…

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