# What is "it"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 18, 2001, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/88166 "2001-10-18T05:40:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kgriffey79](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@kgriffey79](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kgriffey79)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/88166/1 "2001-10-18T05:40:37Z")
Remember that phenomenon about “it”? I posted a long time ago what it was and no one really knew. Anyway, I can’t remember who it was but some inventor(the guy who invented some wheelchair that climbs steps) was developing a REVOLUTIONARY new product. He said it would be small and very applicable in the real world. Then reports got out that it might have been some stupid little electronic scooter. So what was it? Do we still not know? Thanks, ---
**Author:** ![Gaspode](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gaspode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaspode)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/88166/2 "2001-10-18T05:51:50Z")
[See that little search icon in the upper right hand corner…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=92554) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/88166/3 "2001-10-18T05:53:25Z")
I believe the fellow invented the gadget that sits next to hospital beds and dispenses IV’s and other medication. He owns an island off of Maine. I, too, would like to know what “it” was, is or might be. ---
**Author:** ![ignatzmouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b2d939/32.png) [@ignatzmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ignatzmouse)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/88166/4 "2001-10-18T06:11:24Z")
I was thinking about this issue a couple of days ago. Could it be some kind of real world surrogate with which one might virtually travel? I remember people talking about this concept back in the late eighties, but I haven’t heard anything recently. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/88166/5 "2001-10-18T06:44:55Z")
Either that, or he’ll change his name to ‘Scorpio’, and ‘it’ will turn out to be a death ray. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/88166/6 "2001-10-18T07:52:55Z")
‘it’ is a chase game played by many primary school children; the person who is ‘it’ must catch and touch another person, making them ‘it’, I can’t believe you were even asking about this. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2001, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-it/88166/7 "2001-10-18T08:22:32Z")
Since this has been discussed so recently, I’ll close this thread and direct any further comment to the earlier thread, linked to above. bibliophage moderator GQ