Of course my favorite part concerned the devices, especially with regard to the design POV: how earlier designers thought about the affordances, the design, the forms, the colors... Here area few devices:Bell's phone:
Adler's phone: the first mobile phone:
The first Minitel (1983):
The first Matra visophone (1982):
A Radiocom 2000, a famous french portable phone (not mobile because you cannot put it in your pocket) :
And now... old devices like the first mobile telephone
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