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
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.
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)
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
“Yo, we’re getting together at 3:00 PM with Billy, when will you be here?” seems easy enough from ur example :)
PM is assumed by you, but by no means mentioned or implied by the message content or context.
Unless called out, context usually determined AM/PM as well as what drugs to bring.
oh true, I didn’t catch that assumption of mine!
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
So old people have their own secret language that young people can’t decipher?
For once, we have the upper hand.
Hey, who are you calling old?
Good point!
The 144 characters limit. IIRC Twitter had the same limit because at the beginning you could post on your profile using SMS.
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.
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)