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2009-05-03 | Los Angeles Times Why text messages are limited to 160 characters Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters. That became Hillebrands magic number -- and set the standard for one of todays most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging. To read the full article, click link below. |
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