Just another toy concept in 1959. Etch_A_Sketch#History
Just another sci-fi TV prop of a data PAD, or a depiction of future technology based on an ancient concept.
By the late 1960s more people were starting to think about the potential of an electronic sketch & note PAD.
By the late 1970s several key people were realizing the burgeoning technological gateways & Jobs that would be created well into the next millennium.
By the early 1990s, the Internet allowed the World_Wide_Web to really take off.
By 2010 more people started to think about the possibilities of texting, doodling or doing some serious web surfing underwater or in orbit. Although the iPad computer seems like a modern invention, the concept of a talking mirror goes back way into the past.
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"Mirror, mirror on the wall,"