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Yes, the NSA really did ban Furby from its premises in 1999 (feddit.uk)
submitted 4 days ago by heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk to c/historymemes@piefed.social
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In case you were wondering, yes, GCHQ banned them too. This incident also led to one of the funniest FAA papers ever.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yak bak

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I had a yak bakwards. Which at least had some kind of toy function, in that you could play the 3 or 4 second recording forwards or backwards. That was minutes of entertainment.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I had both and would use the original to "back up" my clips