stackyFACTS
Technology

The original limit for text messages was 160 characters. How did the inventor decide on this incredibly specific number?

HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART

The original limit for text messages was 160 characters. How did the inventor decide on this incredibly specific number?

From the Stacky collection1 min read
The original limit for text messages was 160 characters. How did the inventor decide on this incredibly specific number?
STACKY / Technology
Topics in this facttelecomhistory
One discovery leads to another.

Keep exploring facts in this topic.

Technology →
STACKY FOR IPHONE

A bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.

Keep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.

Download on the App Store
ONE MORE DISCOVERY?

Keep exploring

All in this topic →
The very first SMS text message ever sent in 1992 wasn't a standard greeting—what exactly did it say?
Technology

The very first SMS text message ever sent in 1992 wasn't a standard greeting—what exactly did it say?

The very first SMS text message ever sent in 1992 wasn't a standard greeting—what exactly did it say?

Discover more
During the early to mid-twentieth century, the word computer did not refer to a machine at all, but was actually an official job title given to human beings, primarily women, who…
Technology

During the early to mid-twentieth century, the word computer did not refer to a machine at all, but was actually an official job title given to human beings, primarily women, who…

During the early to mid-twentieth century, the word computer did not refer to a machine at all, but was actually an official job title given to human beings,…

Discover more
The video game crash that nearly killed the industry
Technology

The video game crash that nearly killed the industry

In 1983, the video game market was flooded with so much absolute garbage (looking at you, E.T. for the Atari 2600) that consumers just completely stopped…

Discover more
Billions of dollars were spent globally in the late nineties to update computer systems in preparation for the Y2K bug, driven by the panic that software using two-digit years…
Technology

Billions of dollars were spent globally in the late nineties to update computer systems in preparation for the Y2K bug, driven by the panic that software using two-digit years…

Billions of dollars were spent globally in the late nineties to update computer systems in preparation for the Y2K bug, driven by the panic that software…

Discover more
Early computers remembered data with echoes in mercury
Technology

Early computers remembered data with echoes in mercury

Early radar and computing systems lacked RAM, so they stored data by turning electrical pulses into sound waves and firing them down a long tube filled with…

Discover more
Early typewriter ribbons were literally soaked in wet ink
Technology

Early typewriter ribbons were literally soaked in wet ink

Because office work wasn't miserable enough without constantly staining your fingers jet black. The earliest typing machines required users to manually thread…

Discover more
StackyMore discoveries in the app
Download on the App Store