Hello! Ahoy?
The first documented use of “hello” was in 1827. But Hello wasn’t used in the form of a greeting. Hello was actually an expression of surprise; such as, “Hello, what do we have here?!” or; as in, “Hello, what do you think you’re doing?!”
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. A year later, Thomas Edison recorded the first sound ever, “halloo!” Bell was actually in favor of using the nautical greeting “Ahoy!” as the standard phone greeting.
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