00:09Few inventions changed the world faster than the telephone. The first commercial telephones
00:15became available around the world in the 1880s, but back then the original candlestick telephone
00:22was considered to be so ugly that consumers began purchasing or making cosies that would
00:27sit over them. Once the rotary dial landline became more accessible throughout the 1900s
00:44to the 1970s, designers exploded with unique and odd options. Originally, Operator Girls
00:57would place calls for 8 to 10 hours per day, so if you needed to make a call after 8
01:03p.m.,
01:04well, you couldn't. Eventually, Operator Girls were replaced by electronic switchboards which
01:10were capable of functioning 24-7.
01:15Hello everyone, I'm from your telephone company. I'd like to tell you about a few pointers to be followed in
01:22dialing.
01:22By the 1980s, phone networks were becoming digital as optical fibre began replacing the copper wire networks
01:29and then came the mobile boom. Brick phones, as they've been affectionately known, were only available for some
01:39and were mostly used for business purposes.
01:46This is smart. Maxwell's smart.
01:49By the 1990s, mobile technology had become so widespread and with that came options.
01:55From the flip phones to the Motorola Edge to the iconic king of the bricks,
01:59the Nokia 3310. May he live long and prosper.
02:05With the turn of the millennium came the advent of smart technology, with the iPhone bursting onto the market in
02:12January 2007.
02:14Despite their supremacy in the market these days, only 66% of the world's smartphone users
02:20actually use their phones to make voice calls on a daily basis, according to YouGov surveys.
02:25Smartphones are more likely to be used for internet browsing, messaging and personal organisation tasks.
02:31By contrast, the Australian Communications and Media Authority estimates that only 12% or 1 in 8 adults in Australia
02:39actively use a household landline even if 37% of households retain the physical landline connection.
02:47It's a far cry from the original function of Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 phone concept.
02:53I'll see you later. Bye bye.
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