TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel

Re:TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel by kylebenzle on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @04:45PM (#40990157)

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.

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Re:TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel by smelendez on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @07:41PM (#40991321)

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

But I haven’t heard it in a while.

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Re:TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel by bobthepanda on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @07:51PM (#40991374)

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

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Re:TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel by Suppafly on Thursday July 18, 2024 @04:13PM (#40999284)

>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.

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Re:TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel by lopis on Thursday July 18, 2024 @07:31AM (#40994604)

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.

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