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Having worked for seven odd years in the “wireless communities industry” (directing engineering at Upoc, a cell phone social phenomenon) and having necessarily perused first-hand many of the billions of member messages transmitted (beware: data privacy is a phantom, its ectoplasm comprised of eminently decipherable packets), I have earned my amateur psychologist stripes when it comes to human contact at desperate times via tenuous methods.

So I was especially excited to find this discovery recently published in the “American Journal of Technical Archaeology.”

Lucent Researchers Reviewing Decades-Old Server Logs Uncover Very First SMS.

Sent from Alexander Graham ”RingBling” Bell to his laboratory assistant:
yo watson come here. i want 2 date u

Unfortunately, the assistant’s unlogged reply either remained unsent in the airmailed handset or undelivered due to RingBling’s over-limit status.