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.

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

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.