The First Phone Call Was 133 Years Ago 196
magacious writes "March 10 is the 133rd anniversary of the first telephone call. It occurred between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Thomas Watson back on this day in 1876. But there is some debate about whether Bell is actually the rightful owner of the crown for such invention. Having worked on the idea of transmitting speech using electricity for some time, Bell filed his patent on 14 February 1876, either just before or just after his main rival for the title of inventor of the telephone, Elisha Gray, filed his own. Bell won the patent and Gray died in obscurity."
Gray died in obscurity (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, the light bulb was only invented in 1879.
Re:the message: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Such advances! (Score:5, Funny)
More like "can you hear me? CAN YOU HEAR ME? HELLO?? *beep*beep*beep* Ah f**ing Verizon!"
and the second call (Score:5, Funny)
Bell! (Score:1, Funny)
Bell was a fucking faggot for not making encryption part of his specification.
Re:133 (Score:5, Funny)
The real reason Bell got the patent (Score:4, Funny)
They gave it to him instead of others who developed a phone, because they thought history would prefer that somebody named "Bell" invented the telephone, like how Sir Thomas Crapper is credited with inventing the flush toilet even though he really didn't invent it.
And Tomorrow.... (Score:4, Funny)
And tomorrow marks the 133rd anniversary of the first telemarker.
Re:the message: (Score:4, Funny)
But I WAS FIRST POST!
Sincerely,
Elisha Gray
Re:133 (Score:5, Funny)
is such an important number that it's worth a news story by its own
But of course! It's a happy octagonal Harshad integer, and a Blum semiprime. We should read news stories about it every day!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/133_(number) [wikipedia.org]
Re:the message: (Score:4, Funny)
Watson, come here. I need you.
"Oh Mr. Bell, you have no idea how long I've been waiting to hear you say that!"
Re:Antonio Meucci (Score:5, Funny)
Anybody Here Remember Rotary Dials? (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah? Well the rest of you can GET OFF MY LAWN!
Re:the message: (Score:5, Funny)
No, I'm sure it was:
"This is the second notice that the factory warranty may be expiring on your car!....."
Antonio Meucci here (Score:3, Funny)
I sumbmitted the story four times but it was rejected.
Re:the message: (Score:3, Funny)
Alexander Graham Bell:
Well, we did it Watson. What an afternoon. We finally perfected the first telephone.
Thomas Watson:
Yeah, uh, hey listen, somebody called me today. Uh, whoever it was, said some very sexual things, very angry, sexual things.
Alexander Graham Bell:
Oh, really? Probably just some teenagers somewhere... damn them.
Thomas Watson:
Well, well that's, that's the thing. I mean, there's, there's only two phones, in the, well, in the world and one of them is in my office and the other one is in your office and those two didn't even exist until a few hours ago.
Alexander Graham Bell:
Yikes, I could use a distraction right now.