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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: 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 bucked 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 Bling to his laboratory assistant:
        yo watson come here. i want 2 date u
Apparently the assistant’s unlogged reply was either not forthcoming or not delivered, as Dr. Bling was already over his limit.