Ooookay… How’s that relevant here tho… I’m so confused
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I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 5 days agoT9 was a rapid entry system for sending texts using a number pad on a phone.
Instead of doing hello as 44 33 555 555 666 you could do 43556 and it’d predict ‘hello’.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 5 days ago
UraniumBlazer is using contractions such as u instead of you.
Back in the early days of texting, this saved time, and potentially money as well since you paid for each 144 (or was it 160) characters.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 5 days ago
And in the modern era there’s generally no practical reason to use “u” for “you” and so forth anymore, and doing so just makes you seem weirdly lazy, elderly, childish, and really out of touch all at once.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Oh. Ok. Ig I am “weirdly lazy” then. No harm in that I suppose.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Yea but the people who use this today grew up after T9.
Species5218@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Holy ahit, someone that ACTUALLY knows what T9 was!
Most people think that T9 was the method of typing on the telephone keypad, but no its an improvement on that!
Predictive text was another name for it.