Raymond Chen is one of the great treasures of the web.

Of course I remember IR file sharing! And contact beaming from Palm devices.

> The sketch demonstrated infrared file sharing and other mobile scenarios. Remember infrared file sharing? Of course you don’t.

Oh hell yes I do. Dog slow but at least it worked decently well, something I can't say about Bluetooth.

I remember waiting for IR file sharing. It was SLOW.

I mostly remember infrared transfers in the context of beaming contacts between PalmPilots. It was pretty fast for that, and actually, much more reliable than modern AirDrop.