I know the links go off topic, but I ran into so much neat stuff that I just had to put it up.
- The Wikipedia article on the history of cell phones (short)
- PC World History of cell phones in pictures.
- User uploaded pictures at http://www.ebaumsworld.com/
- Antique-Cell-Phones-Pictures at http://www.freakingnews.com/
- http://www.tech-faq.com/history-of-cell-phones.shtml is available in multiple languages.
- About.com article about Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone.
- http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/safford.pdf Not really on topic, but a declassified report on the history of communications intelligence in the US.
- A timeline of the history of communications (35,000 BC - 1998 AD)
- Another timeline with good general tech info.
- Yet another timeline.
- History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network.
- This timeline (pdf) puts it into perspective with other inventions; who knew that the cell phone was invented around the same time as post-its.
- A really nice large jpeg (3000 pixels across!!) timeline of analog cell phone history.
Comment with more links!!!
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Well, nice to see that you have return from your vacation on the Moons of Saturn!
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