You rang?

[sunshine]

NATIONAL TELEPHONE DAY

April 25 celebrates National Telephone Day.  In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell introduced the first version of a telephone.  The telephone was first referred to as the electric speech machine.  “Mr Watson…Come here…I want to see you” were the first words spoken into a telephone by Alexander Graham Bell to his assistant Thomas A. Watson.  (http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/alexander-graham-bell-patents-the-telephone).

Since 1876 the telephone invention has emerged as one of the most successful products ever.  Times have changed and today people are familiar with the modern technology in telephones such as the Droid, iPhone and Blackberry.  It is a different world carrying a phone in your pocket compared to the telephone that was hard-wired to the wall or sat on a desk with a cord and a rotary dial.  What would Alexander Graham Bell think today about having internet capability, voice activation, built-in camera, games, calendar, alarm clock, calculator, and music on a telephone?

CELEBRATE

Celebrate National Telephone Day by calling someone and telling them Happy National Telephone Day! Share your vintage telephone pictures on Social Media using #NationalTelephoneDay to show the different telephones that have been used!

[caserio1]

20% of starbuck's sales are now paid for by telephone

no wonder the world is so screwed up

[sunshine]

Welcome to the modern world cassie.

[caserio1]

amazing when one remembers nickel coffee

[sunshine]

I have never had a cup of coffee in my life.

[caserio1]

why?

[sunshine]

 I don't like  the taste, smell or looks. Dirty watery, yucky...ewww. :-)

[caserio1]

the coffee break is a world wide institutionalized legal bit of goofing off

liberally interpreted to include other reasons for coffee haters to goof off

unless

one never goofs off

[takncarabizniz]

Troll feeding...

Don't do it, sunshine, don't do it !!!!  LOL

[sunshine]

[pacifica]

That's amazing you've never had a cup of coffee, SunshineI remember reading that way back on the old boards. Yeah can be like dirty water....or very tasty, I LOVE the smell of fresh brewing coffee!! Drink it occasionally but don't 'have to have it'. So what are your favorite hot drinks?

Cassy, you remember it being a nickel? lol not that there is anything wrong with that:x, I remember when Thrifty ice cream was a nickel for one scoop, 10 for two and 15 cents for a triple. Do you also remember.......

Andy tells Sarah 'Hey to Goober' back

[caserio1]

cas remembers calvin cooledge

dimly but it's there