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Man making a call with his carphone, New York, 1959 (lemmy.world)
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[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 21 points 11 months ago

Hello? Oh good, good, how are you? Yeah I'm just talking to you FROM MY CAR! Yeah I'm just on the side of the road right now on my car phone that's connected to my car. Sorry, you can probably hear the traffic because I'm literally just standing on the sidewalk right now talking to you on the phone in my car. Oh goodness yes, a small fortune! But it's worth it for all the business I do.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

"What's your business, Bob?"

"Car phone salesman."

[-] nul@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago

Reminds me of when I sold all those magazine subscriptions so I could win an IR messaging device, enabling me to send short text messages to other people with the same device from all the way across the room. What a revolution.

[-] Pyrozo007@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 11 months ago

How did it connect?

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 17 points 11 months ago
[-] Jilanico@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

∅G is the OG

[-] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Ha, I thought that was funny too. My partner was sooo much less interested...

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Man: Ok, so, there's absolutely no room for my suitcases in this car, the trunk has just enough room for a small woman's purse, there's no back seats and the engine takes up half the length of the car.. oh and the phone only works when I'm standing outside the car.

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Man continues: "So if you could send a taxi to pick me up, that would be terrific. No, I guess I didn't need to tell you all of that, but this car phone is pretty neat, don't you think? Yes. I'll be waiting at the curb, I'm standing there now!"

[-] athos77@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's some interesting information on early radiophones here.

[-] SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

The car phone is cool, but what’s that little trike thing parked across the street?

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Looks like it's meant to carry goods or debris or trash or something. They are very common still in many parts of the world.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Luxuries become necessities

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