Historical Photographs with Fascinating Stories Behind Them

[post_page_title]The first cell phone picture[/post_page_title]

This picture may not look like much, but it had an immense impact on the world. This grainy photograph of a newborn baby is actually the first cell phone photograph ever taken.

The first cell phone picture

Philippe Kahn had nothing to do while he was waiting for his wife to give birth in a maternity ward in 1997. So, he started playing around with a flip-phone and a digital camera. Using a few lines of code, he synched the devices so that he could instantly send a photograph of his newborn baby.

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