How we got here: a look back at the cellular industry

Fortune has a lengthy look at the history of the cellular industry, starting with the invention by researchers at AT&T's Bell Labs of the whole concept of "cells", through to the invention of the first handset in the early Seventies and the placing of the first commercial cellphone call in 1983 (by Bob Barnett of Ameritech to the grandson of Alexander Graham Bell), and leading up to the present-day, when people are having trouble remembering what life was like before you could carry on annoying one-sided conversations everywhere.

[Via Textually.org]