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Without texting, we wouldn’t know how to tell people in three letters that something is laugh-out-loud funny (LOL). We wouldn’t have a quick way of conveying dismay (SMH), and we wouldn’t live in a world where most emotions are boiled down to a single, emotive image like ?.
The technology, Short Message Service or SMS, all started with a 16-character message, “Merry Christmas.”, sent 30 years ago today (December 3) by Neil Papworth, a programmer working on the mobile messaging technology. But it would be almost another decade before texting and emoticons (character combinations substituting for pithy facial …
