I left the house without my phone a couple of days ago. I felt like I was on the lam. It was thrilling! Eating a big mac thinking... no one knows where I am!
It's 2017, but I tried to troll my friend with "Hey, guess where I'm calling you from? I'm calling you from a cellphone but a real cellphone." He hung up on me...
Actually is only 36 years ! 1973: First call with a mobile phone 2009: Angry Birds Launch on mobile phone.... 1973 to 2021 is 48 years not 49 years, you need to edit your comment with the true numbers....
I remember when calling from my "Mobile Phone" (i mean, a phone in my car) is a great idea back then, nowadays "Cellphone + driving = traffic accident"
Yeah it's funny how you're not allowed to use a phone while driving because it blocks your vision and restricts one of your hands, however if you've only got one eye and one arm you're still allowed to drive!! 🤣
No, it's because when talking on a phone you become invested in the conversation and cannot concentrate on the road. Back then when you made a call, you would pull off to the side of the road and conversate, just like reading a map. People are so egotistical and lazy and stupid now that they just whip the phone out and start talking wherever.
These kids would rather take a selfie to post for strangers they've never met, and never will meet, rather than pay attention to the road. It's really pathetic
My favorite first-cellphone moment is when me and my hobby soccer teammates where at our favorite pub, and it was jam-packed. As we sat in the back of the pub, and the barmaid didn't come by to get fresh orders as often, I had the fantastic idea to call the phone at the bar and order by telephone. The phone rang, she pickled it up, I said it was me, and began to order, she said, "Claus, I am going to kill you!" and hung up. When she came by, I was glad I sat at the far end of the table. Guess I was ahead of time :)
Without cellphone towers, I’m just wondering how it worked. And it’s amazing how long it took for cellphones to evolve. Zack Morris pretty much had the same phone and that was about 15-17 years later.
There were already cell towers for Carphones which also need them, so the infrastructure was ready, the achievement was to get the electronic small enough to fit in hand, and power efficient to be powered of batteries, which they accomplished.
Martin Cooper, 95 received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Barcelona Congress to mark 50 years since the first Phone call on New York's Sixth Avenue.Cooper then called Joel Engel, his rival at AT&T's Bell Labs.
It took a while for phones to become smaller than that 1970's prototype. In the late 1980's Radio Shack was still adverting portable cellphones that you could get a hernia carrying.
Wrong. The "cell" phone "concept" was first invented by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. This guy might have invented a more useable version, but he DID NOT invent the idea.
Miss my old flip phone. Stayed charged for days. Dropped it on cement it wouldn't break. Finally in 2016 I had to buy a smart phone because my flip phone being held together with duct tape just died.
1995 I haved my first Cell Phone. My Uncle called me to ask something (I gaved him my new Number) and I said, I'm not at Home, I will call back later. "What you're mean, you're not at Home? You're on the Telephone! Are you kidding me?" 😁
Now people think your cell phone is there for their convenience and you're on a leash 100% of the time. You choose to ignore them, not answer calls or texts, and they know they're being ignored, and then they're pissed. Ahh...that's freedom.
The term "freedom" is for being cut off from wires/cables and primarily for business purposes. But now, you have to reply or react to whatever message people sent you or else...🙄😒
It's gone backwards though. We may have slimmer, smaller, sleeker smartphones now but Pay As You Go (whenever) is being re-branded into PAYG every 30 days. It's being turned into a mobile landline commitment. We can also be tracked easier, batteries are sealed in so arguably it's never truly "off". Greedy and power hungry companies are making the call experience on a mobile considered just another monthly bill instead of offering a phonebox-style use case like 1g and 2g was, or face losing your number..
04:00 "...it doesn't do any of those things perfectly" Is there a device that does do something perfectly? Because smartphones are amazing for what they are, sure they tend to be expensive but I'm still impressed with what they do even today. Seriously smartphones are so versatile they really capture how people would have thought the future would be, in a rectangular slab of glass.
NUKE AT&T introduced Mobile Telephone Service to one hundred towns and highway corridors by 1948. Mobile Telephone Service was a rarity with only 5,000 customers placing about 30,000 calls each week. Calls were set up manually by an operator and the user had to depress a button on the handset to talk and release the button to listen. The call subscriber equipment weighed about 80 lb.[11] Subscriber growth and revenue generation were hampered by the constraints of the technology. Because only three radio channels were available, only three customers in any given city could make mobile telephone calls at one time.[12] Mobile Telephone Service was expensive, costing 15 USD per month, plus 0.30 to 0.40 USD per local call, equivalent to about 176 USD per month and 3.50 to 4.75 per call in 2012 USD
My very first mobile phone was Motorola Talkabout in 2001. However I wish I was born in ‘60’s could much have had relished the technology in ‘80’s and ‘90’s. I truly hate this generation’s technologies.
My parents where excited when they receive a call outside the house in the garden with the cordless, for answering they must pull out the Antenna...that was pure luxury 😆
Once a friend of mine teased the university professor.. "sir why dont you carry a phone booth instead" and the professor replied it worked well. That time he was still using the amps the sizs of water bottle motorola.
*Celular* is how we call cell phones in Brazil. I sometimes wondered why it was called like that. A formal way to call it is *telefone celular* which means something like "cellular telephone"
lmao bitch you lost main idea because you put all attention to visual fill that was stock footage and has a purpose to make main character as technology avare person... what can I say... I hope you growed up.
I remember these. Ginormous military walkie talkies. And as they became more available to the wider public they became flip phones with bus wheelchair ramps as the flap 🤣
Remember when people joke about Slater having the BRICK phone implying that it was a 90s deal , or even saying they were from the 80s... remind them that the brick phones were around in the EARLY 70s. Only 2 starting out, but still... 70s tech, not 80s or 90s.
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It baffles me that antennas are shrinking and service providers are moving towards higher and higher frequency connections, already looking to phase out 3G Regardless of how much technology evolves, physics triumphs Nothing can replace a large antenna and a low-frequency connection
These were so expensive not everyone could afford one .. or you had to rent them .. my cousin had a cellphone in the 80s i thought that was the most cool thing ! Didnt get my 1st cellphone until 2001, funny story i have a modern cellphone (iphone 12) but same number of 20 almost 21 years now lol.. 1st phone was an old Motorola had to use the car lighter to charge lol
Long gone are the days when you could call someone and say "Guess where I'm calling from!" I'm calling from the backseat of a car! NO WAY DUDE!
Classic80sStuff lol
you can still blow minds if the answer is "a payphone"
Ya, if i could fine one, last payphone booths in my country are turned into wi-fi hotspots.
Grover Asylum What is a "pay phone"?
Its a phone in a booth on street, you have old phone connected to wire and you insert coins to call, its ancient theology "D
I left the house without my phone a couple of days ago. I felt like I was on the lam. It was thrilling! Eating a big mac thinking... no one knows where I am!
I'm 22 and I do this regularly lol. Old soul I guess. No socials
I used to do this more.
So, being disconnected actually felt like freedom rather than being connected.
hahahahahahah hiii love this
Your hitman loves it when you do thar
It's 2017, but I tried to troll my friend with "Hey, guess where I'm calling you from? I'm calling you from a cellphone but a real cellphone." He hung up on me...
Haha you sucker
Lmfaoo
O.o
Now it's 2024
yes... nothing is more freeing to be obligated to answer your boss's call on your free days.
SpecialHandlingUnit in late night sometimes ☹️
Because not taking your phone with you or turning it off is impossible.. 🙄😑
@@TheGreenOps Yeah then you get fired just because you didn’t answer lol
They can still call the house phone.
Unless you live in a democratic country where being contacted by work people for work related stuff outside working hours is illegal.
49 years before angry birds..
Xd
51*
@@brandentheultramangofighter well the comment was written 2 years ago so back then it was 49, but now currently it is 51 yes.
4AM
Actually is only 36 years !
1973: First call with a mobile phone
2009: Angry Birds Launch on mobile phone....
1973 to 2021 is 48 years not 49 years, you need to edit your comment with the true numbers....
Using your phone will driving...
quite different times eh.
Time when your cell phone was bigger than your shoes
They still are,ipads
I have very small feet so they still are
"Hey, we should make a revolutionary new technology!"
"Sure thing, just give us three months!"
Never going to take off. Who would want to carry their phone with them. What a horrible idea.
Kind of makes sense at the time.
How was it a bad idea? Weren’t those the phones who would ultimately give rise to the cell phones of today? 🤔
@@Orlanzepol123 r/whooooooosssshhhhh
Aged like bread
@@Orlanzepol123 it's a joke.
He could probably fend off a mugger with that thing, as well!
AnnPeek The brick!
@Bruno Ferreira ?
I have one and dropped it on my foot by accident when it fell off a cabinet. I had a bruise for 4 days.
Ideal for the store looter
I remember when calling from my "Mobile Phone" (i mean, a phone in my car) is a great idea back then, nowadays "Cellphone + driving = traffic accident"
Yeah it's funny how you're not allowed to use a phone while driving because it blocks your vision and restricts one of your hands, however if you've only got one eye and one arm you're still allowed to drive!! 🤣
No, it's because when talking on a phone you become invested in the conversation and cannot concentrate on the road. Back then when you made a call, you would pull off to the side of the road and conversate, just like reading a map. People are so egotistical and lazy and stupid now that they just whip the phone out and start talking wherever.
Because people are playing on Facebook and texting now
These kids would rather take a selfie to post for strangers they've never met, and never will meet, rather than pay attention to the road.
It's really pathetic
@@whatyousaidbud because their one eye is on the road dumbass lmao
My favorite first-cellphone moment is when me and my hobby soccer teammates where at our favorite pub, and it was jam-packed. As we sat in the back of the pub, and the barmaid didn't come by to get fresh orders as often, I had the fantastic idea to call the phone at the bar and order by telephone.
The phone rang, she pickled it up, I said it was me, and began to order, she said, "Claus, I am going to kill you!" and hung up. When she came by, I was glad I sat at the far end of the table. Guess I was ahead of time :)
xd. What year was this
@@sitsia3808 1983
Haha! Love that story!
That’s brilliant
From company rivalry came the biggest invention in communication.
Hats off to Martin Cooper.
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of that cell phone call.
A real inventor! Notice that on his workbench, he still has WD-40 and a hammer!
it never occurred to me that people waiting for a phone call would have had to cancel plans if they were expecting a phone call during the day
No, your family or secretary could take a message for you.
i love how happy and passionate he was even after all those years
Without cellphone towers, I’m just wondering how it worked. And it’s amazing how long it took for cellphones to evolve. Zack Morris pretty much had the same phone and that was about 15-17 years later.
There were already cell towers for Carphones which also need them, so the infrastructure was ready, the achievement was to get the electronic small enough to fit in hand, and power efficient to be powered of batteries, which they accomplished.
@@GifyTheOld Martin Cooper is a monster who did to those poor pay phones !
@@GifyTheOldcan’t forget they had them for pagers back in the 50s
" mobile phone, that will never catch on " 😂😂
Martin Cooper, 95 received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Barcelona Congress to mark 50 years since the first Phone call on New York's Sixth Avenue.Cooper then called Joel Engel, his rival at AT&T's Bell Labs.
Yeah. More than people in the world. Because those fuckers either break 20 of them in a year or get a new one every couple months.
Tidiest Flyer Including you and me.
... Because that's how the phone companies want you
It took a while for phones to become smaller than that 1970's prototype. In the late 1980's Radio Shack was still adverting portable cellphones that you could get a hernia carrying.
Thank you sir....you have changed the world
Pulled the ultimate chad move and called the competition lol!
Wrong. The "cell" phone "concept" was first invented by KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. This guy might have invented a more useable version, but he DID NOT invent the idea.
"inventor of the cell phone" looks nice on your resume!
Omg I was 10 when they passed the no talking while driving. 20 years past that (1980s) they were driving with those monsters.
a phone with that size for now would last months or even a year of mobile power
Funny, cell phones are headed back to being that size again.
I think having the phone tied to wires gives you more freedom than having you tied to a phone.
"wired device" huh?..... Let me bring your attention to president richard nixon placing a call to the moon in July 20, 1969
haha
Bit difficult to walk down the street with a space rocket held to one's ear.
@@whatyousaidbud xd
Yo you guys are hilarious
"Hey Verizon, ya'll got any lunar space modules in stock? I need to make a long distance call. A VERY long distance."
@@MrWolfSnack 😂
Miss my old flip phone. Stayed charged for days. Dropped it on cement it wouldn't break. Finally in 2016 I had to buy a smart phone because my flip phone being held together with duct tape just died.
Lol I need my dad to dump his flip phone it's holding him back!
1995 I haved my first Cell Phone. My Uncle called me to ask something (I gaved him my new Number) and I said, I'm not at Home, I will call back later. "What you're mean, you're not at Home? You're on the Telephone! Are you kidding me?" 😁
I didn't even realize cell phones were named that way because each area is a little cell.
Now people think your cell phone is there for their convenience and you're on a leash 100% of the time. You choose to ignore them, not answer calls or texts, and they know they're being ignored, and then they're pissed. Ahh...that's freedom.
The term "freedom" is for being cut off from wires/cables and primarily for business purposes. But now, you have to reply or react to whatever message people sent you or else...🙄😒
U are the person who make our life faster thank you very much
Whoever was looking at their phones when walking behind didn't even take a second to appreciate Martin Cooper
It's gone backwards though. We may have slimmer, smaller, sleeker smartphones now but Pay As You Go (whenever) is being re-branded into PAYG every 30 days. It's being turned into a mobile landline commitment. We can also be tracked easier, batteries are sealed in so arguably it's never truly "off". Greedy and power hungry companies are making the call experience on a mobile considered just another monthly bill instead of offering a phonebox-style use case like 1g and 2g was, or face losing your number..
danm a phone that big could be registered as a weapon
This should have way more views. He's the ben franklin of making portable phones.
04:00 "...it doesn't do any of those things perfectly" Is there a device that does do something perfectly? Because smartphones are amazing for what they are, sure they tend to be expensive but I'm still impressed with what they do even today. Seriously smartphones are so versatile they really capture how people would have thought the future would be, in a rectangular slab of glass.
Didn't the military have Cell Phones before that? WoW I always thought it started as a military project
NUKE you would be correct..
NUKE AT&T introduced Mobile Telephone Service to one hundred towns and highway corridors by 1948. Mobile Telephone Service was a rarity with only 5,000 customers placing about 30,000 calls each week. Calls were set up manually by an operator and the user had to depress a button on the handset to talk and release the button to listen. The call subscriber equipment weighed about 80 lb.[11]
Subscriber growth and revenue generation were hampered by the constraints of the technology. Because only three radio channels were available, only three customers in any given city could make mobile telephone calls at one time.[12] Mobile Telephone Service was expensive, costing 15 USD per month, plus 0.30 to 0.40 USD per local call, equivalent to about 176 USD per month and 3.50 to 4.75 per call in 2012 USD
CB communications used that handset feature, *broken arrow*
My very first mobile phone was Motorola Talkabout in 2001. However I wish I was born in ‘60’s could much have had relished the technology in ‘80’s and ‘90’s. I truly hate this generation’s technologies.
I always wanted to know what what was the first phone ever and this is the best video and also thank you for this video
fernando032186 this not the first phone ever
The first phone call ever was made in 1876.
I'm pretty sure he/she means first mobile phone
Joojoo jeejee i think he meant first phones that where also getting sold
This is the first cell phone . Wireless phone
gotta CRAWL before you WALK
And here I am watching the history of the first cell phone on a cell phone
“Epic troll”
Imagine old celebraties carrying a 1kg cell phone like todays Iphone😬😬
No cell phone means freedom
I would’ve said “this is Martin Cooper calling you from the middle of fifth avenue” or something lol
I love that story.
When I was a kid I was excited when my cordless phone worked at my neighbors house. It had a metal antenna that pulled out about 2ft long.
My parents where excited when they receive a call outside the house in the garden with the cordless, for answering they must pull out the Antenna...that was pure luxury 😆
Martin cooper is a great scientist
Portable doesn't mean freedom it means enslavement. You are ALWAYS available.
1970 : car phone is mobile phone
2020 : wait that's illegal
who's watching this on their phone
full rescpect
Freedom of always be available or the stress of pretending to not be available.
Mobile phones invented the question "where are you?"
Can you hear me now
"Get me the toilet paper"
Who else here has a bag phone/car phone still?
I have one but it can no longer be used because the analog cell network is no longer working.
Yes but doesnt work lol but will keep it forever as a keepsake
Marty Cooper invented the cell phone. Apple reinvented the cell phone and Samsung reinvented it again.
he deserves Nobel prize
Agreed
There should be a statue of this man on the very spot he made that first cell call!
Once a friend of mine teased the university professor.. "sir why dont you carry a phone booth instead" and the professor replied it worked well. That time he was still using the amps the sizs of water bottle motorola.
*Celular* is how we call cell phones in Brazil. I sometimes wondered why it was called like that. A formal way to call it is *telefone celular* which means something like "cellular telephone"
because it's a network of cells , or a celular network
That must have been hard to lose can spot the large grey mass anywhere in the house
Funny how he is trolling again at the end acting like he personally fixes and manufactures the cell phones.
That it is not the intent of the final scene.
lmao bitch you lost main idea because you put all attention to visual fill that was stock footage and has a purpose to make main character as technology avare person... what can I say... I hope you growed up.
Since every year needs a reply, here I am.
@@stoopiosproductions3130 and so am I
@@colemin2 Yes, I was so fucking roasted than I must end my entire blood line. Also, that wasn't "le epik roast"
RIP martin cooper
The advantage of a landline is you can give out that number if you don't want to be bothered at work or elsewhere.
god bless you Dr. Cooper
why i read Dr. Pepper
I found an old Motorola brick phone cleaning out my moms garage after she passed away. I’m saving it to use it for an 80’s costume accessory.
Im watching this video while staying in that hotel in the video, the Hilton midtown
why his phone look like a boot 👢
Now my cellphone has replaced my wallet most of the time
"We had only one question: is it gonna work?"
Well of course. Because if the answer to this is, "No," nothing else matters.
I remember these. Ginormous military walkie talkies. And as they became more available to the wider public they became flip phones with bus wheelchair ramps as the flap 🤣
He doesn't like the smartphone wonder what he has in mind for one?
cellphone, a way to make people get tired of each other fast!
now if you walk down the street with such a phone you will be arrested😂
Remember when people joke about Slater having the BRICK phone implying that it was a 90s deal , or even saying they were from the 80s... remind them that the brick phones were around in the EARLY 70s. Only 2 starting out, but still... 70s tech, not 80s or 90s.
First cellphone.
This man is a legend
This wasn't trolling this was FLEXING.
In 2020
Hey guess where im calling you from.
From phone booth. Yeah a real phone booth
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Thankyou 😊🥰
thanks to you we were able to advance cellphone
Phones were getting smaller over the years since then . And now theyre getting bigger again
It baffles me that antennas are shrinking and service providers are moving towards higher and higher frequency connections, already looking to phase out 3G
Regardless of how much technology evolves, physics triumphs
Nothing can replace a large antenna and a low-frequency connection
The cells (areas) get smaller to allow more people to use them in a given space.
Thank you
These were so expensive not everyone could afford one .. or you had to rent them .. my cousin had a cellphone in the 80s i thought that was the most cool thing ! Didnt get my 1st cellphone until 2001, funny story i have a modern cellphone (iphone 12) but same number of 20 almost 21 years now lol.. 1st phone was an old Motorola had to use the car lighter to charge lol
Alexander Graham Bell Mark 2, if you really think about it.
Martin cooper is inventor
Some Guy: I need cell phone but I'm allergic to lithium, do you have something with car battery chemistry?
Motorolla:
Max Smart had the first mobile phone... true !! just watch "Get Smart" tv series...
Does the old fashion phones have a charger
Brianna Ferrarini of course ..lol.. how else could the battery get charged up...
Back when you needed to call an airstrike
Lol i like how the car phone would be illegal now adays
U got that right!
how is this man still alive
Clients bust my balls even on vacation and toilet now, thanks Marty...