After reading day after day about smartphones, apps and mobile operating systems, I thought I'd switch it up a bit. On this day in 1922, according to a blog called "For Whom the Bell Tolls Not" on wired.com, United States and Canadian telephone service was silenced for one minute to mark the funeral of Alexander Graham Bell, one of several inventors of an apparatus for transmitting vocal sounds by electrical wires aka - the telephone.
Although shutting down service in two countries is an honorable gesture to pay tribute to Graham's life, I'd like to pay tribute to how far phones have actually come and Graham's initial contributions to the telephone industry. Since Graham's famous "Mr. Watson, come here" phone call on March 10, 1876, I think it's time to admire the evolutions of technology over 134 years. I'm sure the idea of a cordless phone was the farthest thing from Graham's imagination without even mentioning a mobile phone, smartphone or mobile applications.
So on this day, I'd like to say thank you Mr. Graham for your unknowing contributions to the smartphone industry. See, isn't it nice to remember where you came from every so often?