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@bastianallgeier I remember trying Twitter via SMS and rapidly burned through my megre allocation of texts.

8 Nov 2022 at 13:17 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot.wales
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Tom Fosdick 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇺

@BritishTechGuru @bastianallgeier I actually opened a Tw*tter account to keep family & friends informed because I was travelling where there wasn't much Internet, but there was SMS.

8 Nov 2022 at 15:39 | Open on mastodon.green
Mister Prickles 🦔
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@misterprickles @bastianallgeier
Yes. I remember that's why they did it. 160 characters didn''t make much sense to me for SMSs. I always thought 128 characters made more sense. Shorter but that's 1/8 of a kilobyte.

8 Nov 2022 at 17:59 | Open on toot.wales
Mister Prickles 🦔

@BritishTechGuru

128 chars was the original design spec for SMS, but they reduced the permissible character set to allow for 32 more. See GSM 03.38.

(This may be the geekiest post I have ever written, anywhere)

@bastianallgeier

8 Nov 2022 at 18:07 | Open on mastodon.world
British Tech Guru

@misterprickles @bastianallgeier
That makes sense. If acceptible characters had been reduced yet further by eliminating capitals then they'd have been able to add a further 26. Now that would have been interesting.

8 Nov 2022 at 18:11 | Open on toot.wales
What we're all made of

@BritishTechGuru @bastianallgeier Yes! so many texts to 40404 on my phone bill 😅

8 Nov 2022 at 19:39 | Open on c.im
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