{"id":650569,"date":"2013-04-04T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=412820"},"modified":"2013-04-04T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T14:40:24","slug":"the-outrageous-way-many-americans-rewrite-mobile-phone-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650569","title":{"rendered":"The outrageous way many Americans rewrite mobile phone history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/american-mobile-phone-history-revision-criticism-412820\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"617\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/nokia-store.jpg?w=650&amp;h=617&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"American Mobile Phone\" title=\"Nokia in Helsinki\" \/><\/a><\/center>The first mobile phone call was placed 40 years ago. So on Wednesday, we were treated to several &#8220;History of the Mobile Phone&#8221; articles by American journalists, most of them orgies of chauvinism and astonishing nationalistic bias.\u00a0One pure product of this navel-gazing genre is the <em>Wired<\/em> magazine piece called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgetlab\/2013\/04\/influential-cellphones\/\">The 12 Cellphones That Changed Our World Forever<\/a>.&#8221; In the revisionist history of the mobile phone, the actual nature of the device is obscured completely. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/04\/american-mobile-phone-history-revision-criticism-412820\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/avjeQ5xffk4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first mobile phone call was placed 40 years ago. So on Wednesday, we were treated to several &#8220;History of the Mobile Phone&#8221; articles by American journalists, most of them orgies of chauvinism and astonishing nationalistic bias.\u00a0One pure product of this navel-gazing genre is the Wired magazine piece called &#8220;The 12 Cellphones That Changed Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}