{"id":4526,"date":"2012-12-06T04:14:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T04:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2012-12-06T04:14:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T04:14:55","slug":"20-years-of-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4526","title":{"rendered":"20 Years Of Texting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been apparently 20 years since the first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Text_messaging\">text message<\/a> was sent according to stories like this one, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/20-years-of-texting-the-rise-and-fall-of-lol-2012-12\">20 Years Of Texting: The Rise And Fall Of LOL<\/a> from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0The first text message was sent on 3 December 1992, when the 22-year-old British engineer Neil Papworth used his computer to wish a &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; to Richard Jarvis, of Vodafone, on his Orbitel 901 mobile phone. Papworth didn&#8217;t get a reply because there was no way to send a text from a phone in those days. That had to wait for Nokia&#8217;s first mobile phone in 1993.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What is interesting is that texting is declining. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/3d976108-3f77-11e1-ad6a-00144feab49a.html#axzz2EF22qwXi\">FT reports<\/a> a &#8220;steep drop in festive Christmas and New Year text messaging this year&#8230;&#8221;. With smartphones that can do email, apps on smartphones, and plans that make it affordable to call, we have more and more choices. Soon <a href=\"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=548\">l33t<\/a> will become an endangered language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been apparently 20 years since the first text message was sent according to stories like this one, 20 Years Of Texting: The Rise And Fall Of LOL from Business Insider. \u00a0The first text message was sent on 3 December 1992, when the 22-year-old British engineer Neil Papworth used his computer to wish a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4526\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20 Years Of Texting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology","category-media-and-news","category-social-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4527,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions\/4527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}