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I loved beaming stuff between Newtons as a kid.

I love thinking about the idea of sending uber low bitrate memes during some boring meeting.

Palm Pilots! Brad Templeton once sent me his business card that turned out to be "You Have Been Hacked." Very funny.

One of my teammates was fond of sending "I'm not wearing pants." between Palm Pilots

I was a bit older, but it was a great feature pre-WiFi. PDA transfers over IRDA, too!

I used to transfer files (photos mainly) by IrDA with my classmates between our phones in the mid-00s.

Honestly, it's such a weird statement to make. I'd guess that most of his audience remembers infrared file sharing.