Got this off of the web: "Bell’s famous first words spoken over what we now call the telephone – “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” – were delivered without any greeting at all. When he did weigh in on the subject, Bell proposed using “ahoy, ahoy,” the age-old seafarer’s hail."
Got this off of the web: "Bell’s famous first words spoken over what we now call the telephone – “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.” – were delivered without any greeting at all. When he did weigh in on the subject, Bell proposed using “ahoy, ahoy,” the age-old seafarer’s hail."