The very fact that you are online right now reading these very words are something you can thank the introduction of phone systems for. Even if you aren’t using a dial-up system for your internet needs, all the technology being used to relay computer information are directly descended from the technology Alexander Graham Bell used to call his assistant Watson that fateful day more than a century ago. Now we use Phone Systems for things far more important and things far more frivolous. We don’t even think about the phones we use anymore.