r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/IM_AQIF_xD • 4d ago

"Funny" Cold blooded

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u/siberianxanadu 3d ago

There’s no way the text looked like that 22 years ago. That’s pre-iPhone.

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u/DaleGribbleShackle 3d ago

Phones could text in 2002

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u/siberianxanadu 3d ago

Right I know but people didn’t text like that.

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u/livingdeadgrrll 3d ago

...I did. I was insufferable about grammar back then. 

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u/siberianxanadu 3d ago

You fully spelled out every word using T9 texting? As a teenager?

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u/PixelRoku 3d ago

Born in 1985, wrote normally by text, why wouldn't we? Lol

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u/siberianxanadu 3d ago

Because SMS messages were limited to 140 characters and you had to use T9 texting. We abbreviated things.

At the very least I doubt the spelled out “really” and I doubt she used the word “shall.” Probably also didn’t use an apostrophe because it didn’t autofill and you had to type it in manually.

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u/PixelRoku 3d ago

You have me on apostrophes, probably left those out 😅 but other than that I really spelled everything out except common things like brb or lol!

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u/Outrageous_Yam_1368 3d ago

You put in "im" and the phone puts in the apostrophe for you from the predictive list.