Alternative History of The Telephone By WindowsME 1876 The Telephone Was Invented Period: 1876 to 1900 19th Century Phones Jun 28, 1891 Germany Called Austria-Hungary for Some Truffles, and Also for Getting Some Money. Jan 1, 1899 Telephones Prices Drop From $3,999.99 to $999.99 Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Nov 17, 1938 The "Slow" Boom Mar 14, 1903 Over 600M People Have Telephone Now Aug 30, 1922 Population w/ Phone Reaches 1B Dec 19, 1937 The Winston Phone Book Was Awarded Book of The Decade Nov 18, 1938 Phones get Banned Worldwide For No Good Reason Period: Nov 18, 1938 to Feb 8, 1945 Banned Period Jan 1, 1939 All Phones Get Thrown Away By The Govt. and Send Them to The Burning Centre Apr 9, 1940 Phone books Get Permanently Banned From Persia and Germany It Was "Permanently" Banned In Germany Because of The Six-hour War Was Occurring, But Persia's Reason remains Unclear