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Old 05-04-2009, 10:08 PM   #1
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Default Why text messages are limited to 160 characters
Why text messages are limited to 160 characters

lone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper.

As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters.

That became Hillebrand's magic number -- and set the standard for one of today's most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging.

"This is perfectly sufficient," he recalled thinking during that epiphany of 1985, when he was 45 years old. "Perfectly sufficient."

The communications researcher and a dozen others had been laying out the plans to standardize a technology that would allow cellphones to transmit and display text messages. Because of tight bandwidth constraints of the wireless networks at the time -- which were mostly used for car phones -- each message would have to be as short as possible.

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Old 05-05-2009, 02:48 AM   #2
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sometimes I need more than 160 characters to say what needs to be said.
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Old 05-05-2009, 02:53 AM   #3
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thts y u typ like dis lol
Even when I do that I need more. But we are women what do you expect
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Old 05-05-2009, 03:00 AM   #4
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sometimes i do...I delete my signature....use 2 instead of to, too or two...use n instead of and.
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