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History of creation of 160 characters in SMS

Cell phone users would know, if an SMS message consists of 160 characters. However, not many people know the history, how the initial creation of 160-character limit on that SMS.

Many theories that mention about the limitations of 160 characters. However, the theory most commonly known is the 160-character limit was created by the developer of telecommunications Deutsche Telekom Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand.

As quoted by the Los Angeles Times blog, on a night in 1985, Hillebrand sat in his home in Bonn while continuing to ramble by making a number of statements and questions. At that time, the interpreter ketiknya asked to type every word Hillebrand.

History of creation of 160 characters in SMS

Done rambling, Hillebrand then count the letters, numbers, pause letters, punctuation, and spaces on each page there. Apparently, when it was discovered Hillebrand, almost every babble that consists of one or two lines consisting of nearly 160 characters.

"It's very appropriate," said Hillebrand, who was then aged 45 years.

At that time, it is developing a telecommunications expert to create a standardized technology that allows mobile phones to send and deliver written messages.

The idea of ​​160 characters then triggered by Hillebrand with his partner, Bernard Ghillebaert of France Telecom, the GSM development group meeting in 1985. The idea of ​​the two men became increasingly developed and became the standard number of characters in an SMS.

Before starting the character count, Hillebrand himself had argued with one of his friends about the benefits of text messaging in communication. "My friend calls it can not be used in bulk, but I'm optimistic," said Hillebrand.

Optimism Hillebrand proved. Perhaps, this time via SMS text messaging is used more than the telephone. Hillebrand had never thought that his findings are now widely used all over the world young people to decide his girlfriend.

However, Hillebrand did not gain financially from the work they create. Since there is no royalty in the creation of sms. If in each SMS Hillbrand earn money, he thought, "That would be fun," said Hillebrand.

However, 160 characters were created Hillebrand is then increasingly popular. Its popularity became more so thanks to a young man named Jack Dorsey created social network called Twitter.

Twitter then adapt the work Hillebrand's to 140 characters for each tweet. Jack Dorsey seems to understand the 'services' Hillebrand. In a tweet, Jack Dorsey posted a link on the history of SMS which is a service of the Hillebrand. In a tweet is a link about the history of SMS's, Dorsey admitted influence the creation Hillebrand limitation of 140 characters on Twitter.



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