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And thats all it could really do. and it also didnt have a keyboard, so people had to cycle through the buttons to get to their letters. despite being quite limited, the text message really took off. people loved it. we had an engineer that spoke to the bbc earlier who said he was doing corporate training in businesses teaching people how to send a text, how to reply, sort of text etiquette and that kind of thing, and it was just so popular. but it was only in around 2010 that the word "texting"...
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