In this day and age, people are all about the need for speed. We aren’t talking about cars, we’re talking about communication. Picking up the phone and calling someone to deliver a quick message is becoming obsolete. More and more, people are using SMS to send quick messages, have complete conversations and share pictures and videos. We text every single day, yet do any of us know how the text message came to be? Our guess is most likely not. It all started in the early 1990’s when the first text message was sent from a computer to a mobile phone. From there, Nokia created the first handset phone with text messaging services. At this point in time, texts were usually used to inform mobile phone users of voice mail messages. In 1995, the average American user sent 0.4 text messages per month. That number seems almost made up compared to the now 2,000+ sent every month and 2.2 trillion sent per year by mobile phone users. As the years went on, phone makers began adapting to SMS technology and texting between networks became an option. As text messaging became more popular, new methods emerged for typing on those small phone buttons. When all we had to type on was 9 keys, Cliff Kushler came up with T9, short for “text on 9 keys,” which made texting easier and faster. From there, we were introduced to the QWERTY keyboard, similar to a computer keyboard and now we have touch screen phones with “keyboards” and the ability to swipe our words together. As a result of text messaging, various other communication apps have come to be, yet 81% of mobile phone subscribers still use text messaging as a main form of communication. Now, with this short history lesson, we here at FortyThree ask you to imagine your life without text messaging and from that, realize just how far technology has come over the years.
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