Text Messaging History

Story posted on: May 5, 2009. Filed in: others.

Did you ever stop to wonder why the text messages you send are limited to 160 characters per message? Did you think that it was just some carrier-imposed restriction to milk more money out of us consumers? Well, there is actually quite a bit of history related to it, and it’s all thanks to a man called Friedhelm Hillebrand who lived in Germany. Basically he was the one who decided that 160 characters was enough to convey a message wirelessly. You can check out the whole write up here.

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