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[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 52 points 10 months ago

T9 gang represent!

We could send the whole fucking paragraphs from our pockets.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

For real though. Modern kids don't know jack about real texting until they can write a veritable essay blind without errors.

[-] SnugZebras@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 10 months ago
[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Swipe does not allow you for blind typing. Well, you can try, but the amount of errors will be a lot larger.

[-] mondo_brondo@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Yeah I think that was why it says “jello” and not “hello”

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

I used to do that while riding my bicycle.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Props for mad skill

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The first SMS message was sent in 1992.

[-] hansl@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

They didn’t have blue bubbles back then so it doesn’t count /s

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yeap, I got my first GSM phone in the summer of 1993. Been texting ever since.

[-] MaxHardwood@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

When it was $0.10 to send and receive messages

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

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.

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