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And the rollout of easy texting was not even. I still have flashbacks to people with unlimited texting sending another message that was just one word, and me needing to spend another 1/2 minute to see it. You could have said everything in the last five texts in a 30-second call! This could have been food money!
Note for young people who may have never known limited calling and texting plans: "Minutes" here refers to credits that you spent on calls and texts, that you needed to pay to replenish.
Phones that could only store 10 SMSesses
O shit that's right, had to delete them to make room. I think I have an old .txt backed up somewhere where I typed by hand conversations I wanted to preserve into my PC.