This 'time-traveling' iPhone is 150 years old! Just take a look at this awesome painting of a girl

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The iPhone is as much of an iconic smartphone as it is a cultural symbol. Everywhere, from movies, commercials, music videos and art, you will find it lying somewhere where it is conspicuous. The oldest iPhone was rolled out in 2007 and its journey thereafter has turned it into one of the most recognizable devices on the planet. However, recently, something has made the internet think that the iPhone also influenced the past. While Tim Cook has not added the time-traveling feature to the iPhone 14, some people have found an iPhone in a 150-years old painting! And ever since this painting has been found, people on social media sites are going bonkers over it. Whether it is magic or science fiction come true, nobody can agree upon. Is that the oldest iPhone ever? The truth seems a lot simpler.

The painting in question is called The Expected One and it was made by Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller in 1860. The painting shows a teenage girl walking on a dirt path with mountains in the background. A bit ahead in the road, a boy with a flower in his hands can be seen waiting expectantly. But the strange part of the painting is a small rectangular box in the girl's hand which she is looking at intently. Netizens believe the box is nothing but an iPhone and the she is actually scrolling.

The first to start this entire argument was a man named Peter Russel. According to a report by VICE, Russel and his partner were visiting the Neue Pinakothek, an art museum that houses 18th and 19th century artifacts in it. It is here where Russel spotted The Expected One and immediately exclaimed that the girl in the painting was holding an iPhone. The lowered glance and the shape of the object was unmistakable. But how did an iPhone