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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 10:49:42 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   Interesting fact of the day: The first recorded use of the word "Hello" was in 1866, and the first published use in 1867. At the time it was not used as a greeting but rather as a proclamation of suprised like "Well well, hello, what do we have here".

   It only came to be used as a greeting because it was popularized as such by Alexander Bell when he encouraged people to use it as a greeting when picking up the phone due to the open-line nature of phones at the time.

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     🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Aug-2024 11:09:53 JST 🇺🇦 haxadecimal

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     Not quite. Alexander Bell suggested use of "Ahoy" for the telephone greeting. It was Thomas Edison that popularized "Hello" in its place, though he didn't invent the word. Usage of "hello" in print existed as far back as 1826.