Velocity Alert: The First Cellphone Went on Sale 30 Years Ago for $4,000

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THIS STORY IS ABOUT TO GO VIRAL

The First Cellphone Went on Sale 30 Years Ago for $4,000 Somewhere in either Chicago, Baltimore or Washington, someone plunked down $3,995 to buy the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, the first handheld cellphone, on March 13, 1984 -- 30 years ago today. We don't know who that first cellphone buyer was. At the time, the occasion didn't register as historically auspicious. How does Mashable know what's going viral? Mashable built a system called Velocity, which scours the social web, collecting lots and lots of data around how people are engaging with published articles. It then pulls all of that data back to Mashable, dumps it into our own predictive engine, and predicts which articles are about to go viral. Read more at Mashable.com ▶ Mashable, Inc. is a Delaware Corporation. P.O. Box 64 New York, NY, 10159-0064

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