T9 gang represent!
We could send the whole fucking paragraphs from our pockets.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2023
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For real though. Modern kids don't know jack about real texting until they can write a veritable essay blind without errors.
Swipe to text says jello.
Swipe does not allow you for blind typing. Well, you can try, but the amount of errors will be a lot larger.
Yeah I think that was why it says “jello” and not “hello”
This is on point lol. The amount of weird words I get that nobody ever even uses. I'm currently using Gboard which has gotten a lot worse since the feature was implemented. Actual Swype tanked in output quality dinner time ago (Example of odd results lol). Swiftkey never worked well with my thumb movement techniques. I miss when Swype was new.
I used to do that while riding my bicycle.
Props for mad skill
The first SMS message was sent in 1992.
They didn’t have blue bubbles back then so it doesn’t count /s
WhY aRe YoUr TeXtS GrEeN? Do YoU nOt HaVe An IpHoNe?
No. I don't. I'm one of the many, many people who don't have iPhones.
Yeah but I didn't get my first cell phone until 2003 cause all these young kids I hung out with at work wouldn't stop bothering me about it lol. "We want to text you!" Brats.
Back then that translated directly to “we want to cost you money” because you’d need the unlimited plans for text messages if you sent more than like, what, 20 a month? 50? I don’t recall but it wasn’t a lot compared to today where that’s the primary means of communication for the vast majority of people, so we have multiple platforms to do it and lol charging per text.
Oh and unlimited didn’t include web browsing, that was separate. And only if you had a compatible phone.
Iirc, it was like $0.10/message? So yeah, the brats were costing me money lol. And I was definitely on a T9 flip phone, none of this internet nonsense.
Yeap, I got my first GSM phone in the summer of 1993. Been texting ever since.
When it was $0.10 to send and receive messages
Sounds like a good time to me. Up your game my old dude :-).