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charlespost185 :
yeah they did n back in the eightes I worked for a company n my boss had car phone but it was expensive as all get out
2024-05-09 01:27:42
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Jeff Potter :
In the 1970s my father had a phone in his caddie. Didn’t know they traded in the 40s
2024-05-09 15:04:55
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charlespost185 :
yeah they did n back in the eightes I worked for a company n my boss had car phone but it was expensive as all get out
2024-05-09 01:27:42
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Corina :
Stealth bomber was released to the public 40 years after invention. Imagine what they have now. Makes you wonder why Putin hasn’t fire at us. Well, he doesn’t need missiles, he has trump to destroy us
2024-05-09 21:22:58
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frogmatic123456678o :
1940 grahambells worked everywhere. 2024 cell phone dont work 60 miles outside the city
2024-05-09 10:04:21
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Affinityscloset :
it's almost like technology exists long before it's mainstream. they need time to figure out how to best profit off us after our tax dollars paid for the development of it
2024-05-06 06:40:18
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Burnt Rice373 :
It was radio. Everyone else with one could hear the conversation.
2024-05-06 05:21:49
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Jim OKeefe :
Phone backpacks in WWII and beyond were cellular phones.
2024-05-06 10:35:31
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clinton dunavan :
you could use a scanner to listen to cordless phones around the neighborhood in the 80's and 90'a
2024-05-06 12:29:26
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Tin Foil Hat Dude :
Analog radio telephone.
2024-05-06 06:19:06
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SouthLACajun :
Most likely used radio waves similar to walkie talkie.
2024-05-06 08:33:21
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Billy Batson :
84yrs later and I still have calls drop.
2024-05-06 15:51:36
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Richard Tallent :
“The future is already here — it’s just unevenly distributed”
2024-05-06 04:43:46
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alcove05_layoff :
I was also expensive to use. In the 80’s I had a brick style Motorola phone. I was charged about almost $2.00 per minute. Times have changed.
2024-05-06 18:25:15
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Anthony :
back in my day we called that a cb radio
2024-05-06 15:55:09
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PazparaChile Fundación :
I believe you, also Maxwell Smart a.k.a. Agent 86 used them in the shoes. Imagine the battery size. 😁😁😁
2024-05-06 14:05:02
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Fibio :
My first exposure to mobile phones was the TV show Perry Mason 💁
2024-05-06 13:47:23
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Park Girls :
I had a mobile phone in my car in 1979 …. It cost me $3500 back the and $250 a month plus 50 cents a minute to use.
2024-06-12 23:42:02
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Eric L Gould :
it was a cb not a cell phone more like a walkie-talkie
2024-05-07 23:09:48
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user3836289887256 :
Wonder when this will be available in my area ?
2024-05-08 01:37:18
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Viper :
mobile car phones service originated with the Bell System and was first used in St. Louis, Missouri, United States on June 17, 1946. They were a luxury item
2024-05-06 12:38:40
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okccsi :
Ham radio…called Telephony
2024-05-06 04:52:47
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Tim Payne :
isn't this actually the precursor to CB radio, not telephones?
2024-05-06 10:50:47
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Will Hutchinson :
been talking bout this.... if we have a technology, the government has had it for decades...... think on yhat
2024-05-09 03:57:36
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LizVilu💙 :
Never heard of this before in my 40 years in this life 🤷🏻♀️I must me from a different universe
2024-05-07 14:33:46
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Jason Rand743 :
This tells me it was free back then and used Radio waves, I didn’t think Car phones came around in the late 70’ into the 80’s 🤔 must of had to figure out how to charge for it😜
2024-05-06 10:54:35
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Bruski :
Gen X & their pals think nothing happened until they were born. Constantly degrading Boomers. Well we invented the technology you use today.
2024-05-06 08:47:40
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Digital Latte. :
This will never catch on lol.
2024-05-06 05:49:41
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peterbraddy :
I knew a bloke don the electrician who had one hooked up to his car horn xb panel van in Geelong Victoria Australia 1980s telecom
2024-06-17 09:30:41
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Josh Sims193 :
The “World Fair” look that up and what they did and had there.. 👍😏
2024-05-10 04:18:09
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Lucas Adams :
As early as the 20s there were mobile phones, in fact the radios used in WW2 were cellular technology.
2024-05-07 13:12:07
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Story_Teller_Jon :
The definitions of "compactly" and "neatly" were different in the 50s
2024-05-07 10:15:45
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TMI :
did you know they had it already in the 1800 they just didn't promote it till the 40s for manufacturing for war
2024-05-06 16:22:24
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mike :
and they held it back so they could charge more MONEY 💯
2024-05-06 15:01:26
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Drewcifer2.0 :
It’s a fancy cb or ham radio
2024-05-06 12:26:51
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Dafyd :
If you could afford it
2024-05-06 10:08:25
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Itstoughbingme :
April 1973 Martin Cooper made the first ever cellphone call on the streets of New York.
2024-05-06 09:41:51
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Jared Torres :
And why the sound of silence song was so accurate cause they already knew about this tech long before it got sold to us today
2024-05-06 07:53:41
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Sacramento JP :
That is the exact same service used for the moon landing lol
2024-05-06 06:23:40
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KYBALIONIK :
ob sich das durchsetzen wird 🤔
2024-06-22 07:40:35
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Providence :
The beginning of the end.
2024-06-14 11:31:06
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Joe And :
😭2024 the cell phones are here not only do you talk to them but they listen to your conversation when you're not using them the smart TVs are listening to your conversations watching you but the stup
2024-05-27 16:53:23
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Taris Danielle Legg :
this is why as kids we had to stand still holding antennas while our parents tuned the TV CHANNELS!💯💯GENX
2024-05-27 02:51:47
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Rusty :
Back to the future !
2024-05-20 09:04:07
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manatee21 :
What??? We didn’t have phone till the 50 party line😂
2024-05-13 01:14:46
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Adino Adonai :
before the black inventor discovered gama cell 📱 first used in the military then those big ass cell phones 😂
2024-05-11 21:26:56
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Neil Burke5 :
how to full us and make the most money
2024-05-11 21:06:45
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AshCocoababy15 :
Compact had a whole different meaning back then 🤣
2024-05-10 15:42:09
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jasonglenn :
I remember carrying around a heavy backpack with a phone but it was expensive to use! 😂
2024-05-10 15:40:53
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