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Home › Forums › Late Nineteenth Century America › The first prank call in history?
Someone researching some archives through Google Books found a reference to an early prank call – perhaps the earliest on record – in 1884.
Unless it turns out that Alexander Graham Bell didn't really want to see Watson - that he was just goofing on the guy - then the first documented prank phone call would appear to have occurred about eight years after that famous 1876 exchange ... and at the expense of an undertaker in Providence, R.I.
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