There's an alternate timeline where the CueCat was hugely successful and we all carry them around daily, and there is a vibrant ecosystem of custom CueCat holsters for sale as quick and convenient CueCat access is essential to the modern lifestyle.

oh man, install Ruffle if you need to https://ruffle.rs/ and check out some of the awesome flash animations on the CueCat install CD.

https://ia601702.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/7/items/crq10/crq10.iso

Fake british(?) accent?
Gross mouth noises into the microphone? Check and check!

Somehow coding a full flash progress bar was difficult, so there are individual flash animations for each section of progress

i missed out on the other aspect of this software, apparently it would just open the mic on your PC and your TV could play a special bloop sound that would send a URL to your browser from a playing commercial.

that doesn't sound fraught with inevitable security vulnerabilities or anything

@gloriouscow It's what Scotty would have wanted.