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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.

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!

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]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC