I was honestly ready to whine about the timing and this not making sense… but no, turns it my timeline, despite being based on books that were supposed to be well-researched, was way off. And indeed the first chatter about mobile phones was around 1908. Til.
Have some Wikipedia en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones
Eq0@literature.cafe 6 days ago
I always love small misconceptions about technology that didn’t exist yet. In this case: no chance of silencing or turning off the device. Cracks me up!
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
No concept of voicemail.
Of there were answering services, they were for rich people of just called secretaries.