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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"What does this phrase even mean? I'm guessing it's an old joke?"
God don't I feel old now and I'm only 30
Trying to send a txt at midnight used to be problematic - like took hours |
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"What does this phrase even mean? I'm guessing it's an old joke?
God don't I feel old now and I'm only 30
Trying to send a txt at midnight used to be problematic - like took hours"
Will the Internet become version 0.1 too? |
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By *hav02Man
over a year ago
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"What does this phrase even mean? I'm guessing it's an old joke?
God don't I feel old now and I'm only 30
Trying to send a txt at midnight used to be problematic - like took hours
Will the Internet become version 0.1 too? "
I think we're on Web 4.0 at the moment, according to Tim Berners-Lee's definitions... |
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"What does this phrase even mean? I'm guessing it's an old joke?"
Text messaging (SMS) was essentially bolted on to a system that was designed for low-traffic signalling (to handle phone call traffic), it was never meant to handle too many messages at once.
At New year's, everyone would send a "happy new year" message to their whole phone book, and the phone networks couldn't handle the traffic, so the messages wouldn't get there (fun fact: all that signalling traffic was important for phone calls, so making a phone call would fail too). So everyone started sending the messages earlier, before the new year's meltdown.
Nowadays we don't use a dirty hack for text messaging, we just let uncle Zuck handle everything. |
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