{"id":4683,"date":"2013-09-13T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T14:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2013-09-11T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T18:31:37","slug":"when-phones-were-not-so-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/when-phones-were-not-so-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"When Phones Were Not So Smart!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, telephones have not always been smart!\u00a0 This recent blog post from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/09\/when-dumb-phones-were-cool-a-visual-history\/279274\/\">The Atlantic<\/a> showcases a time when phones were not so smart!\u00a0 It got us thinking about how quickly the telephone has changed over the years.\u00a0 Check out this history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elon.edu\/e-web\/predictions\/150\/1870.xhtml?m=1\">telephone<\/a>.\u00a0 What is your prediction for the next generation of smart phones?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Some fun images from the past!<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4683 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/when-phones-were-not-so-smart\/phone1\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/09\/Phone1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4684\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4684'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>At one time having a princess phone was considered the must have phone!<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/clean-technology\/the-princess-and-the-ipod.html<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/when-phones-were-not-so-smart\/phone2\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/09\/Phone2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4685\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4685'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Here is Michael Douglas in <br \/>Wall Street!  The telephone is <br \/>almost as big as a football!<br \/> http:\/\/trendycellular.com\/blog\/old-school-fridays-first-cell-phone-in-a-movie\/<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/when-phones-were-not-so-smart\/phone3\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/09\/Phone3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4686\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4686'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Photos from the American Memory Project and Library of Congress.<br \/>\nImage of historic sheet music from the collection of Duke University, 1915.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/when-phones-were-not-so-smart\/phone4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2013\/09\/Phone4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4687\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4687'>\n\t\t\t\t<p>Women sitting at a desk in a room, talking on telephones during a Mississippi River flood relief fund drive.  Chicago Daily news  1927.<br \/>http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2013\/09\/when-dumb-phones-were-cool-a-visual-history\/279274\/<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, telephones have not always been smart!\u00a0 This recent blog post from The Atlantic showcases a time when phones were not so smart!\u00a0 It got us thinking about how quickly the telephone has changed over the years.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/when-phones-were-not-so-smart\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}