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Alexander Graham Bell invents the Telephone
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First telephone Yellow Pages directory
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First coin-operated Telephone installed
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First dial phone in the U.S.
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The first "official" coast-to-coast call was made from New York City to San Francisco
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First president of the United States with a phone on his desk
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Field tests for the first pagers began in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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First phone with a lighted dial was introduced and Phones became a part of American pop culture
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The first touch-tone telephones with 10 buttons were test-marketed
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Telephone hotline was established between the White House and Kremlin following the Cuban Missile Crisis
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911 was chosen as the nationwide emergency number
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First e-mail message sent
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First cellular phones are sold
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Caller ID introduced which became a popular add-on feature
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World Wide Web was born and internet connections were received through phone lines
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The 'Thin Phone' was sold, this intergrated wireless internet access with local wireless phone sevice
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The 'Web Phone' was sold, which combined traditional phone with the feature of surfing the internet and checking e-mails
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'Information Applications' made internet mobile, wireless, internet on the TV, voice-activaed dialing and much more