It was called the TikTok: https://ujeezy-blog.tumblr.com/post/2869125971/unboxing-the-...

I thought you were making a joke about TikTok the social media app at first. I wonder how many other products were named TikTok.

It was a ver common phrase. I think its been lost to history but right before "TikTok" the phrase "tic tock" was getting popular as a way to say, "the second-by-second run down", e.g. give me the tic tock.

This was common in journalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick-tock_(journalism)

But I haven’t heard it in a while.

I feel like the most popular pre-app wide popular usage would’ve been the Ke$ha song.

>I feel like the most popular pre-app wide popular usage would’ve been the Ke$ha song.

Agreed, a lot of the alternative usages that people are mentioning seem fake and I don't recall any of them being a thing. The only usage I recall being widespread was people saying tick tock to tell you to hurry up implying that the hands of a clock are moving. That and the little known novel from the 80's about a sentient murderous robot.

I believe that by the end of the century half of the most common words of the English language will have been hostilely taken over and ruined by tech companies.

Came for TikTok - Stayed for TikInABox - I feel low-key rick-rolled :)

It's a web search away, but here's an example from an article posted at the premiere of the watch: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/2015-apple-watch-vs-the-201...

Just search for "iPod nano watch".

https://www.macworld.com/article/667363/ipod-nano-6g-with-st...

Yeah, my cousin did this years ago. Wore it religiously too.