Taking its name from a blogger, Gossip Girl is by definition a pretty tech-savvy series, with Season Two likely exceeding the first in that department.
Fresh new gadgets and "apps" surface all the time, and the folks at Geek Sugar put together a funny list of the Top 10 tech moments of the season!
Here goes, for the techies and nerds (us included) out there ...
10. Emailed College Acceptance Letters. The gang got their college acceptance letters via email. At the risk of dating ourselves, this is not how it worked when the owners of this site applied to college. Does they really do this now?
9. Serena's Jawbone. To properly flirt with her instructor, Julian, Serena covertly wears a rose gold Jawbone bluetooth earpiece with Vanessa piped in.
8. Apple Product Placement! After two seasons of hiding Apple logos, halfway through the season, it finally peeked out. Was there a deal struck?
7. Nelly's BlackBerry Storm. Nelly Yuki proudly flashed a BlackBerry Storm when she got her Yale acceptance, flaunting this brand-new phone.
6. Dorota: Facebook Queen. The amazing Dorota not only admitted to trolling Facebook groups, but we got to see her with her own embellished PC.
5. Blair: Former Pink Phone Addict. A cell phone ban precipitated a tidbit about Blair Waldorf's cell phone evolution - scads of pink cell phones.
4. The Verizon Hub Pops Up. Verizon's newest home tech gadget, the Hub, showed up in the van der Woodsen household on at least one occasion.
3. Facebook Favored on Gossip Girl. The show showed a love of Facebook throughout, featuring it in cell phone apps, references and screen shots.
2. Dan Drops a Loopt Reference. In the season finale, Dan tells Serena "I Loopt you," referencing the controversial locator service and confusing the crap out of some of the members of the Gossip Girl Insider staff. We admit it.
1. Jonathan: Hacker! Eric's boyfriend Jonathan got the closest to unmasking Gossip Girl when he hacked her server over spring break. Long live geeks!
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14 Comments
June 4th, 2009 11:24 AM
Yes! They really do email college results-- or at least an email saying that the results are in and that you can log onto the school's website to see if you were accepted.
June 4th, 2009 12:03 PM
They definitely email college acceptance letters in addition to mailing them. This is nothing new, I graduated from high school in 2002 (eons ago!) and received an email acceptance from my college. Plus, remember the whole UC San Diego debacle in April where 29,000 students were led to believe they'd been accepted via email? http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Youre-Out-Youre-In-No-Youre-Out.html?yhp=1
June 4th, 2009 12:43 PM
Thank you for the explanation of Dan's "I loopt you." I had no clue what he was talking about
June 4th, 2009 2:03 PM
Hey yeah, my college acceptance was actually an email!^^
About the Apple logos,,I don't pay much attention to these things, but in seas1 I remember noticing Serena's laptop was a Dell;)
June 4th, 2009 2:05 PM
^ Same here. haha. I was like 'WTF?! Is that supposed to be a sexual innuendovor or a mint candy?'
June 4th, 2009 3:04 PM
En eccosse, we get our uni acceptances (or otherwise) through UCAS online, then through the post, so you often find out online before the letter arrives.
June 4th, 2009 4:12 PM
They don't neccesarily email you the results... but you can see your online decision on the college website!!! (exciting time...)
June 4th, 2009 4:24 PM
yes they do e-mail acceptance letters. at least this year they do. i got the majority of my admission decision via e-mail
June 4th, 2009 4:27 PM
i still don't get what dans i loopt you means does it mean i love you
June 4th, 2009 4:28 PM
meredith is right. i forget. they send you an e-mail and a link to the school's website to find out not the actual decision.
BTW. when did dan ever tell serena "i loopt you"