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by simplexion 3764 days ago
And you know... how laptops were also referred to as notebooks decades ago.
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Definitely, in fact as far back as 1988-89, but Apple called their "notebooks" Powerbooks starting in 1991 before anyone else was using -Book in the branding*

* as far as I can recall with the exception of Alan Kay who was dreaming up the future in 1972 and called it the DynaBook