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The first ringtone was a bird screaming “ANSWER!” Ancient and accurate.

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Ringtones appeared with mobile phones in the 1990s, first as simple beeps and later as polyphonic tunes. The first ringtone was not a bird shouting answer, and the claim is a joke.

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