![]() It didn’t happen quickly, but it happened. The doctor got a phone, so the pharmacist got a phone. Etiquette magazines tried to prevent women from inviting people over for dinner via telephone, then gave in. ![]() Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to start conversations by saying, “Ahoy-hoy!” AT&T tried to prevent people from saying “hello,” arguing in Telephone Engineer magazine that it was rude.īut eventually, Americans learned to say “hello.” People built a culture around the phone that worked. At first, no one knew exactly how to telephone. The telephone swept into Americans’ lives in the first decades of the 20th century.
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