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Why telegrams looked like modern text messages
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Paying per syllable is a remarkably effective way to make people brutally concise. Because sending electrical messages over long distances was incredibly expensive, users stripped out all vowels and pleasantries to lower the bill. It was the original form of modern text messaging, driven entirely by a desperate desire to save a handful of coins.
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