This Day in History - GET YOUR ASS IN HERE!

From HistoryChannel.com

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.
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Then along came Al Gore and made it so we could use the telephone lines to look for smut.