Text Messaging History

Did you ever stop to wonder why the text messages you send are limited to 160 characters per message? Did you think that it was just some carrier-imposed restriction to milk more money out of us consumers? Well, there is actually quite a bit of history related to it, and it’s all thanks to a man called Friedhelm Hillebrand who lived in Germany. Basically he was the one who decided that 160 characters was enough to convey a message wirelessly. You can check out the whole write up here.