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Yep. When it’s the best option, it’s surprising how good and quick you could be with it. Plus it was super nice to just stealthily send a text message while holding your phone under a desk and looking somewhere else.
- homes@piefed.worldEnglish4 days
And you’d get these messages like
yo wr gttg tgthr @ 3 w/billy- whn u b hr?And you’d have to try to decode what the hell it meant
4 days“Yo, we’re getting together at 3:00 PM with Billy, when will you be here?” seems easy enough from ur example :)
- homes@piefed.worldEnglish4 days
We have the benefit of decades of parsing this sort of message. 25 years ago, this was like another language.
Especially when individuals or friend groups would make up their own abbreviations for their own slang, and you might have no goddamn idea what something meant
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So old people have their own secret language that young people can’t decipher?
PM is assumed by you, but by no means mentioned or implied by the message content or context.
- turtlesareneat@piefed.caEnglish4 days
Unless called out, context usually determined AM/PM as well as what drugs to bring.
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The 144 characters limit. IIRC Twitter had the same limit because at the beginning you could post on your profile using SMS.
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SMS is 160 characters. In the early days Twitter really only functioned over SMS. The Twitter 140 character limit was to fit the message inside an SMS with room for other info like usernames.
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Interesting. I always believed the SMS is 144 characters. Incredible we had a social where ideas where sent 4~8 lines at a time (depending on the font size)
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I remember when phones where an arm and a leg in price purely because of T9. Having a predictive dictionary in your pocket needed a lot of bread.
Honestly that was a blessing in disguise actually. Person had to slow down and actually think through what they we’re writing, in comparison to modern voice messages where it’s primarily just verbal diarrhea and the reciver has to do all the processing and filtering.
Fair, but voice messages are still worse, at least that example is short.
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And we skipped all the Polish letters like “Ł” and “Ń” because there was a 150 character limit, these used up 16 characters and messages cost money back then.
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Yeah, when each txt was like 10-20 cents… Which isn’t much. But can add up QUICK!!!
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We didn’t have them on our plan at the time so it was like $0.50. Dad was pissed lol.
At least one of my smart phones had a way to do it. If it’s still there now, it’s buried much deeper.
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- Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
Japan still kind of has that situation as I understand it. They have more kanji than can fit on a keypad, so there’s a bit of grouping to form a particular one on larger keyboard buttons.
