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Originally Posted by AndChiefs
Not sure what was happening nine months before June 14th, 1984 but it seems like all of our parents were excited about something.
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The first commercial cell phone was made... people knew it would be the end of meaningful human interaction as we knew it.
Happy birthday, cell phone baby!
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On October 13, 1983, David D. Meilahn placed the first commercial wireless call on a DynaTAC from his 1983 Mercedes-Benz 380SL to Bob Barnett, former president of Ameritech Mobile Communications, who then placed a call on a DynaTAC from inside a Chrysler convertible to the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, who was in Germany for the event.[12] The call, made at Soldier Field in Chicago, is considered to be a major turning point in communications. Later, Richard H. Frenkiel, the head of system development at Bell Laboratories, said about the DynaTAC: "It was a real triumph; a great breakthrough."[13]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC