A telephone used to be a friend, something you said hello to and took for granted. But since the advent of direct dialing and seven-digit phone numbers plus area code, the square black box, which no ...

Alexander Graham Bell holds the first patent for a telephone, and he made the first-ever phone call on March 10, 1876, asking his assistant to come to the room to see him. Since then, telephone lines ...

Whenever we receive a call, the first word that slips out is "Hello." It’s such a natural response that we rarely pause to wonder why exactly we use this greeting. Yet, the familiar word we speak ...