Mobile Telephony is 50 years old

[Slim]

The first mobile phone call was made 50 years ago today, in New York.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65112048

But six years later, the technology was still in its infancy as this Tomorrow's World piece from 1979 shows. Sometimes it's hard to believe I was alive in those times.

[Thenop]

Interesting. It seems car phones using radio signals were introduced (if you could call it that) as early as 1946 by Motorola. Was not aware of that.

[The Picnic Wasp]

Incredible. A mobile with a dial. It really has been warp speed advancement since those days. I remember in the nineties when I had become used to owning a mobile myself, being absolutely stunned when colleagues were swapping photos between their devices. My phone didn't even have a camera at the time, which still wasn't an unusual situation for then. However, the moment which floored me was when the office gadget geek appeared with a Blackberry one morning. When I went over to have a look, the small screen was displaying the Google logo. No way surely!
He couldn't be on the internet - on his phone. That moment, and the time I stood in a music store witnessing Cubase on an Atari, were my technology Epiphanies. I doubt very much that anything of a technological nature will ever fill me with such awe again. AI is insanely incredible, but its possible consequences are too frightening for me to enjoy its existence.

[David L]

50 years.......and still unreliable 

[Nick]

50 years.......and still unreliable 

I'll take unreliable(which I don't find) over queuing up outside a red phone box stinking of piss.

[pxr5]

Reminds me of this: