Our friends pronounced it "carrying around our computer towers and setting up folding tables to play Planetside and Stepmania all night". I think it’s a regional thing.

2002 was actually quite late in the Palm era. The iconic Palm V, for instance, dates back to 1999. And BlackBerry had a mature smartphone by 2002. Nothing compared to an iPhone of course, but quite capable.

I had plenty of my own webpages in 2002 and never had this weird double spacing. Ever.