The First Cell Phone Call Was an Epic Troll

[@HerecomestheCalavera]

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!

[@greglanciotti7235]

Classic80sStuff lol

[@groverasylum9626]

you can still blow minds if the answer is "a payphone"

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

Ya, if i could fine one, last payphone booths in my country are turned into wi-fi hotspots.

[@smitty31560]

Grover Asylum What is a "pay phone"?

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

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

[@chadparker8198]

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!

[@buddybonbutt7510]

I'm 22 and I do this regularly lol. Old soul I guess. No socials

[@blakemcnamara9105]

I used to do this more.

[@markhines192]

So, being disconnected actually felt like freedom rather than being connected.

[@FG-lq4pz]

hahahahahahah hiii love this

[@olympian3]

Your hitman loves it when you do thar

[@eddebrock]

"Hey, we should make a revolutionary new technology!" "Sure thing, just give us three months!"

[@xelefonte]

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...

[@madillynnb5178]

Haha you sucker

[@moed8975]

Lmfaoo

[@idk-6816]

O.o

[@Lem-yo5tm]

Now it's 2024

[@iamvengeance7159]

From company rivalry came the biggest invention in communication. Hats off to Martin Cooper.

[@kjell159]

Using your phone will driving... quite different times eh.

[@ZerqTM]

49 years before angry birds..

[@sitsia3808]

Xd

[@brandentheultramangofighter]

51*

[@sitsia3808]

@@brandentheultramangofighter well the comment was written 2 years ago so back then it was 49, but now currently it is 51 yes.

[@hasimkhan1936]

4AM

[@allen73RMX]

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....

[@SpecialHandlingUnit]

yes... nothing is more freeing to be obligated to answer your boss's call on your free days.

[@MinimusMaximus]

SpecialHandlingUnit in late night sometimes ☹️

[@TheGreenOps]

Because not taking your phone with you or turning it off is impossible.. 🙄😑

[@justicegutierrez6847]

@@TheGreenOps Yeah then you get fired just because you didn’t answer lol

[@futurelane3377]

They can still call the house phone.

[@RaduRadonys]

Unless you live in a democratic country where being contacted by work people for work related stuff outside working hours is illegal.

[@TurboAidan29]

Never going to take off. Who would want to carry their phone with them. What a horrible idea.

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Kind of makes sense at the time.

[@Orlanzepol123]

How was it a bad idea? Weren’t those the phones who would ultimately give rise to the cell phones of today? 🤔

[@iexplainjokestomakethemles1560]

@@Orlanzepol123 r/whooooooosssshhhhh

[@jita26televisi]

Aged like bread

[@googleuser2609]

@@Orlanzepol123 it's a joke.

[@ErnestJay88]

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"

[@whatyousaidbud]

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!! 🤣

[@MrWolfSnack]

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.

[@sgillman16]

Because people are playing on Facebook and texting now

[@sgillman16]

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

[@noriii]

@@whatyousaidbud because their one eye is on the road dumbass lmao

[@fredrichenning1367]

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.

[@maistooo]

Time when your cell phone was bigger than your shoes

[@kkproductions4774]

They still are,ipads

[@spacewanderer9]

I have very small feet so they still are

[@Theegoaat]

Pulled the ultimate chad move and called the competition lol!

[@GibsonVienna]

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?" 😁

[@hezekiahwallace2412]

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of that cell phone call.

[@akom3nt]

a phone with that size for now would last months or even a year of mobile power

[@Julia-cg4jj]

i love how happy and passionate he was even after all those years

[@xrg0pen]

A real inventor! Notice that on his workbench, he still has WD-40 and a hammer!

[@_clauscarstensen]

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 :)

[@sitsia3808]

xd. What year was this

[@THE_HELLENIC_BALL]

@@sitsia3808 1983

[@sierram3141]

Haha! Love that story!

[@Yogasefski]

That’s brilliant

[@mho...]

"inventor of the cell phone" looks nice on your resume!

[@286hanif]

Thank you sir....you have changed the world

[@runedrejer8094]

" mobile phone, that will never catch on " 😂😂

[@roachtoasties]

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.

[@zuzannawisniewska4464]

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.

[@monkfan72]

He could probably fend off a mugger with that thing, as well!

[@patmccarthy3793]

AnnPeek The brick!

[@sitsia3808]

@Bruno Ferreira ?

[@MrWolfSnack]

I have one and dropped it on my foot by accident when it fell off a cabinet. I had a bruise for 4 days.

[@carlosgavino6874]

Ideal for the store looter

[@2taggs2]

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.

[@GifyTheOld]

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.

[@franksandoval6046]

@@GifyTheOld Martin Cooper is a monster who did to those poor pay phones !

[@jonathandavis132]

@@GifyTheOldcan’t forget they had them for pagers back in the 50s

[@rickster1217]

Funny, cell phones are headed back to being that size again.

[@cadifaddy6675]

Omg I was 10 when they passed the no talking while driving. 20 years past that (1980s) they were driving with those monsters.

[@dakotastein9499]

danm a phone that big could be registered as a weapon

[@anythinggoesvideospart-2242]

gotta CRAWL before you WALK

[@jackkraken3888]

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.

[@vijaykannan2771]

U are the person who make our life faster thank you very much

[@emperor.of.west21]

1970 : car phone is mobile phone 2020 : wait that's illegal

[@JamesPhillipsOfficial]

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..

[@jimmybuffet4970]

I would’ve said “this is Martin Cooper calling you from the middle of fifth avenue” or something lol

[@arthas0005]

And here I am watching the history of the first cell phone on a cell phone

[@mojojeinxs9960]

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.

[@Theegoaat]

Lol I need my dad to dump his flip phone it's holding him back!

[@smookerji]

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.

[@Be2Bless]

"wired device" huh?..... Let me bring your attention to president richard nixon placing a call to the moon in July 20, 1969 haha

[@whatyousaidbud]

Bit difficult to walk down the street with a space rocket held to one's ear.

[@sitsia3808]

@@whatyousaidbud xd

[@andredurr4141]

Yo you guys are hilarious

[@MrWolfSnack]

"Hey Verizon, ya'll got any lunar space modules in stock? I need to make a long distance call. A VERY long distance."

[@sitsia3808]

@@MrWolfSnack 😂

[@FlyingRBLX2011]

Whoever was looking at their phones when walking behind didn't even take a second to appreciate Martin Cooper

[@kevinharrison4909]

Portable doesn't mean freedom it means enslavement. You are ALWAYS available.

[@benhatto]

I didn't even realize cell phones were named that way because each area is a little cell.

[@flatgamingyt8981]

Martin cooper is a great scientist

[@tidiestflyer7570]

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.

[@patmccarthy3793]

Tidiest Flyer Including you and me.

[@stevecarter8810]

... Because that's how the phone companies want you

[@nhprman]

I love that story.

[@DesmoProfundis]

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.

[@justlurking5203]

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...🙄😒

[@smolbean_ii]

Imagine old celebraties carrying a 1kg cell phone like todays Iphone😬😬

[@jamei9161]

“Epic troll”

[@-_Nuke_-]

Didn't the military have Cell Phones before that? WoW I always thought it started as a military project

[@letsbehonest4221]

NUKE you would be correct..

[@letsbehonest4221]

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

[@MetalMusicManiac]

CB communications used that handset feature, *broken arrow*

[@mychaelobie]

RIP martin cooper

[@blakemcnamara9105]

I think having the phone tied to wires gives you more freedom than having you tied to a phone.

[@EricDarcman]

There should be a statue of this man on the very spot he made that first cell call!

[@evo2542]

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

[@JohnSmith-fq3rg]

No, your family or secretary could take a message for you.

[@Indygenous]

In 2020 Hey guess where im calling you from. From phone booth. Yeah a real phone booth

[@Syntax_Sensei]

who's watching this on their phone

[@joshhelms8413]

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.

[@gemeinsamesfamilienkonto3304]

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 😆

[@fernando032186]

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

[@radioboy7880]

fernando032186 this not the first phone ever

[@joojoojeejee6058]

The first phone call ever was made in 1876.

[@bourne8636]

I'm pretty sure he/she means first mobile phone

[@saxenart]

Joojoo jeejee i think he meant first phones that where also getting sold

[@safwanzidan6427]

This is the first cell phone . Wireless phone

[@shawncollins9938]

Freedom of always be available or the stress of pretending to not be available.

[@timngim583]

Now my cellphone has replaced my wallet most of the time

[@marcfield1234]

Marty Cooper invented the cell phone. Apple reinvented the cell phone and Samsung reinvented it again.

[@iliasvrynas9189]

Mobile phones invented the question "where are you?"

[@sgillman16]

Can you hear me now

[@MinutesOfMemes]

"Get me the toilet paper"

[@ferenckarvak]

full rescpect

[@quirky6334]

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 🤣

[@josetrujillo9906]

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.

[@flint9889]

This should have way more views. He's the ben franklin of making portable phones.

[@GustoTheGamer]

now if you walk down the street with such a phone you will be arrested😂

[@alexthelizardking]

god bless you Dr. Cooper

[@UltraNyan]

why i read Dr. Pepper

[@KJ7BZC]

Who else here has a bag phone/car phone still?

[@bluefoxtv1566]

I have one but it can no longer be used because the analog cell network is no longer working.

[@lmfd7373]

Yes but doesnt work lol but will keep it forever as a keepsake

[@ThruDaLenz]

why his phone look like a boot 👢

[@Emtbtoday]

He doesn't like the smartphone wonder what he has in mind for one?

[@Joe-ij6of]

Some Guy: I need cell phone but I'm allergic to lithium, do you have something with car battery chemistry? Motorolla:

[@askingwhyisfree7436]

cellphone, a way to make people get tired of each other fast!

[@zeoyero1639]

First cellphone.

[@carlosgavino6874]

That must have been hard to lose can spot the large grey mass anywhere in the house

[@shaylawatson1244]

This man is a legend

[@Cacowninja]

This wasn't trolling this was FLEXING.

[@simonmariogondowidjojo4596]

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.

[@jpnz]

No cell phone means freedom

[@davey2487]

1:12 Ah yes, car telephones. Would've been the absolute worst idea in the history of bad ideas. Can you imagine how many car crashes this would've caused?

[@Wok_Agenda]

Clients bust my balls even on vacation and toilet now, thanks Marty...

[@boriswilsoncreations]

*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"

[@ozzzzy52]

because it's a network of cells , or a celular network

[@thesensiblecoderguy]

he deserves Nobel prize

[@killemcoats]

Agreed

[@VB-qk7cd]

Im watching this video while staying in that hotel in the video, the Hilton midtown

[@patmccarthy3793]

The advantage of a landline is you can give out that number if you don't want to be bothered at work or elsewhere.

[@mstsfa]

Martin cooper is inventor

[@amihan99]

Back when you needed to call an airstrike

[@Lalangthegreat1]

thanks to you we were able to advance cellphone

[@PorchiaP.]

I feel like cellphones were created for Wives to track to Husbands like Richard Dawson! Lol 🤣💖🤗

[@anasbtr]

Phones were getting smaller over the years since then . And now theyre getting bigger again

[@kg1574]

2:50 because you made that up on the spot

[@jmlucero2]

Yeaaaa drive and talk. Great idea lol

[@lykosentertainment]

Bloomberg Television need help: I would like to request permission to use some of the footage from this video. Can you please direct me to the appropriate department? Thanks

[@daniellepettigrew2075]

Your my hero thank you

[@AdamCampettiVideo]

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.

[@carlosthegachatuber9990]

I want to get this phone while I go up

[@4myfatfolks366]

Watching this on my iPhone 7+ 😁

[@briannaferrarini8125]

Does the old fashion phones have a charger

[@letsbehonest4221]

Brianna Ferrarini of course ..lol.. how else could the battery get charged up...

[@Liam20111]

how is this man still alive

[@helloworld6160]

Lol i like how the car phone would be illegal now adays

[@rjs1jd]

U got that right!

[@retromusic3000]

AMAZING!!!!!!!