Why SMS Is Just as Relevant as Ever
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When the first text was sent in December 1992, no-one would have predicted how popular SMS would become. In 1993, Nokia introduced its first mobile phone with an SMS feature, but owning a mobile phone was still relatively unusual. Fast forward through the next decade and SMS’s popularity exploded, with the lack of full keyboards on the handsets of the time being overcome with linguistic innovations such as ‘textspeak’.
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