We should call the fake stick "NAM" for "no access memory." Then you can tell your kids that they couldn't possibly understand, man, because they weren't _there_.
I'd call it write-only memory.
Signetics was first with their 25120 Fully Encoded, 9046xN, Random Access Write-Only-Memory[0].
0. https://web.archive.org/web/20120316141638/http://www.nation...
They couldn't possibly understand NAM, man