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>This is way back in 2000 so before smartphones, and before texting,

I remember sending my first text on the first widely available Nokia GSM handset in the fall of 1994.

SMS wasn't advertised as a feature until the turn of this century when networks figured out how to charge for the service largely due to base station logging disk constraints of space and latency.


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