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When I was a kid I was watching old reruns one day on a sick day and I saw a black and white episode of the Andy Griffith show where some rich fatcat from the city had a telephone in his car.

This was in black and white so I assume the episode was from the late 40's early 50's. I was really shocked that they had cell phones back then.




Wait until you hear about when the first practical battery electric car was developed...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_car


Or the first transatlantic cable..


Or that the Fax machine predates the telephone by 32 years

Alexander Bain invented a fax machine in 1843, Morse invented the telephone in 1875.


The Andy Griffith Show ran from 1960-1968.


That's wild. Thanks for the clarification




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