38th Anniversary of the First Cell Phone Call!

So, it turns out that the first ever cellphone call was made 38 years ago today.  Who knew the cellphone was so old? It's older than me!

I think the first time, in my own limited worldview, that I really became aware of the soon-to-be-ubiquitous cell phone was about 1995, give or take a year. So, as I am often prone to do, I tried to imagine what 1995 George, if while on one of his patented Angry Walks® through 1995 NYC, would think if he accidentally walked through a space-time wormhole to the NYC of 2011 and saw all the peoples on their bluetooth headsets.

Used to be, you could spot the crazies in NYC a mile off, as they'd be the ones merrily yammering to themselves. Now, we all are. Yay cell phones!

first cell phone call

Yesterday was the 38th anniversary of the day that Martin
Cooper made the first cell phone call.

Thus, TODAY we celebrate a mostly forgotten, but
no less momentous anniversary. 38 years ago today Mr. Cooper
was the first person to drop his phone in a public toilet,
creating the first "Smell phone"along with several
new profane words I can't reproduce here.

We salute you (and curse you at times) Martin Cooper!