katefromskelside:bunjywunjy:thenib:This comic from 1919 (!) imagines the horror of having a phone in
katefromskelside:bunjywunjy:thenib:This comic from 1919 (!) imagines the horror of having a phone in your pocket. Sounds awful!W. K. Hasleden’s ‘The Pocket Telephone: When Will it Ring?’ was first published in The Mirror on March 5th 1919. It is reproduced here with the assistance of the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent and Mirrorpix.I wish I could shake the hand of the visionary that wrote thisIt has a curly little wire for the ear piece to connect to the mouth piece, I want one -- source link