We get asked how much information can be shared via text message. Not surprisingly, many people don’t think it is much, even considering the average mobile user manages to share a lot of info with friends, family and co-workers texting from their mobile phones. In 1984 when SMS (Text Messaging) was invented, Friedhelm Hillebrand decided […]
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Beyond 160 Characters in the Library – Text Messaging Reference Doesn't Need to Be Limiting
There seem to be varying stories about the history of SMS (Text Messaging) and why Friedhelm Hillebrand, the creator of SMS, decided on 160 as THE number. Some say it’s the amount of characters on a typical postcard, many other stories not that he just determined it while sitting at his type-writer in Germany, noting […]