Hard to believe it has been forty years. Then again, hard to remember what it was like before we all had cell phones practically as an extension of our body…
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The cellphone turned 40 on Wednesday, April 3. Its creator, Martin Cooper, 84, placed the first mobile phone call on the streets of New York City — he phoned his rival, Joel Engel, head of research at Bell Labs. You can imagine how cheeky that exchange was.
