This Day in History, 1876
Mar. 10th, 2006 06:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mabfanToday is the 130th anniversary of the telephone. On this day in 1876, in his Boston home, Alexander Graham Bell called for his assistant over a primitive telephone by saying, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you."
Since March 10, 1876, the telephone and communication technology has changed dramatically. We've gone from requiring operators to make calls...to party lines...to an American telephone monopoly called AT&T...to the invention of touch tone...to the forced breakup of the AT&T monopoly...to cell phones..to ring tones being a multibillion dollar industry...to Wi-Fi...to the death of the telegram......to AT&T purchasing Bell South...
One wonders what Bell would have thought of all of it.
Since March 10, 1876, the telephone and communication technology has changed dramatically. We've gone from requiring operators to make calls...to party lines...to an American telephone monopoly called AT&T...to the invention of touch tone...to the forced breakup of the AT&T monopoly...to cell phones..to ring tones being a multibillion dollar industry...to Wi-Fi...to the death of the telegram......to AT&T purchasing Bell South...
One wonders what Bell would have thought of all of it.
