Comment on Google labs:word frequency in books over the last 200 yearsComments−thekevan15yThey had smartphones in the 1900s? Could this be related to that woman supposedly seen speaking on a cell phone in the Charlie Chaplin video?http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=smartphone&ye...(Actually, "internet" also has a similar spike. I suspect some books are mislabeled in their dates.)−nrkn15ySome dates are mislabled, but mostly OCR errors:http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet%22&tbs=bks:1,...
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They had smartphones in the 1900s? Could this be related to that woman supposedly seen speaking on a cell phone in the Charlie Chaplin video?
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=smartphone&ye...
(Actually, "internet" also has a similar spike. I suspect some books are mislabeled in their dates.)
Some dates are mislabled, but mostly OCR errors:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22internet%22&tbs=bks:1,...