• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Not to mention the phrases that probably never were used before cellphones.

    Saying “I will text you!” would have been a really weird statement just 50 years ago…

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      Even just over 25 years ago youd have been like “What are you gonna do, hand me a sheet of paper with some text on? Why dont you just tell me?”

      Although, when I was in school we’d pass each other sheets of paper with extended conversations on. I found an old homework diary with loads of messages in once, years after school.

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          Ill be honest i cant remember when texting became a thing.

          I dont think it was a thing in 2000.

          I stand corrected. My first phone was my mums old phone. It had the feature, but they wouldnt send, this was 2000 or 2001.

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            Also got my first cellphone in 2000, but I was kind of a Luditte, mobile-phone-wise at least.
            Everybody around me were already texting happily to each other, so I had to relent at some point… :-)