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echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

It is elsewhere now it’s just in the past it used to be stupidly expensive to send SMS.

It’s way text speak came from, I believe they used to actually charge by the character so if you wanted to tell somebody you’ll “be at the train station in 15 minutes” that’s quite a lot of characters, so that became “@ stn n 15” which is almost incomprehensible these days.

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