From 1963....

[Dannydet]

 

[ozonetrooper]

I was 8 years old when that article was printed !

 

[olbriar]

Talk about foresight. WoW! I'm afraid I was eleven I bought my first cell phone in 1980-81, It was considerably larger than the one pictured. We've come a long ways baby!

 

[dontpanicbobby]

That's a Palm Pilot. Nice find.

 

[Dannydet]

I was 1 years old

 

[dontpanicbobby]

6 years old here.

 

[tube517]

Not born yet but cool find

 

[The_Chief]

I was 9.

Months!

 

[mikedt]

I was one month old.

 

[Trom]

I was four, and I especially liked the part about the housewife preparing a meal.

 

[Deleted User]

I was four too.
In 63 we moved in to our permanent new house in a small city. I left home in 1977 and we never had a house phone in that time.

Shouldn't we all be in a home now?

 

[The_Chief]

I was four, and I especially liked the part about the housewife preparing a meal.

Yeah, what happened to that? I have a housewife... but if I ask her where the hot meal is, she tells me it's in the kitchen waiting for me to cook it

 

[ozonetrooper]

LOL @The_Chief !


My first communication tools were pagers, I worked in an enviroment that had me travelling and they were the chit back then !

Then when the bag phones first came out I got one of them !

And so on and so on until now I am a Droid ! ! !

 

[ozonetrooper]

 

[olbriar]

I had a pager too. I started out with a 2 meter radio that I rented space on a tower that had a landline link. *34 would drop the tower receiver to a dial tone. Pager to call me... tower to return call. Everyone renting space could hear your conversation and visa versa. A party line over the air. It was a great communication system of its time though limited to your ability to hit the lone tower with your signal.

 

[Dannydet]

Lol to everyone replying to this thread!!!
Lol!!

 

[dontpanicbobby]

LOL @The_Chief snip

Then when the bag phones first came out I got one of them !

weren't those really heavy?

 

[ocnbrze]

question......where is Mansfield? seems like they were(are) ahead of their times. i would like to see this place and see what the future holds for me.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I'd say Massachusetts but it might not be the right one. Kinda like Springfield.

 

[Dannydet]

https://www.geodatos.net/en/homonymous-cities/mansfield

 

[Deleted User]

That newspaper is still going, serving surrounding Counties in Ohio.
I looked it up yesterday because there's a Mansfield in the UK

 

[mikedt]

There's Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, and no doubt Mansfield has parks.

 

[Davdi]

I was ten then, That looks like a flip phone/original Star Trek communicator

 

[ozonetrooper]

weren't those really heavy?

Yes !



By: Michael Rozzen
Posted at 7:43 PM, May 19, 2021
and last updated 9:43 PM, May 19, 2021
A social media post going around claims to show a 1963 newspaper article accurately predicting people would be able to carry a phone in their pocket in the future.

It even features a picture of a woman holding something that resembles a modern flip-phone.

It’s real.

The article was published on April 18th, 1963 in the Mansfield, Ohio News Journal.

But predictions about cell phones got back much further than that.

In 1926, Nicola Tesla predicted people would one day be able to communicate instantly with one another with devices that fit inside a vest pocket.

https://www.10news.com/news/fact-or-fiction/fact-or-fiction-1963-article-predicted-cell-phones

 

[Clementine_3]

I was 3 and had a playskool phone on wheels baby!
I don't know how old I was, ~6 I'd guess, when my dad's work car had a phone and he let us call my mom from the driveway once. We couldn't talk long as she, being the housewife, was busy (or it was ridiculously expensive so not too be used).