This Day in History - Telephone

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SPEECH TRANSMITTED BY TELEPHONE:
March 10, 1876

On this day, the first discernible speech is transmitted over a telephone system
when inventor Alexander Graham Bell summons his assistant in another room by
saying, "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you." Bell had received a comprehensive
telephone patent just three days before.

And that's what enabled Al Gore to invent these internets.