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  2. SMS language - Wikipedia

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    SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen. Short Message Service language, textism, or textese [a] is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.

  3. Who are kids texting in school? You might be surprised

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    Although most schools ban cell phone use in classrooms, new research administered by California app developer textPlus revealed that 42.5% of 600 teens surveyed admitted they do it "sometimes" or ...

  4. SMS - Wikipedia

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    The submission of the text to the SMSC is identical to a standard MO Short Message submission, but once the text is at the SMSC, the Service Center (SC) identifies the Short Code as a premium service. The SC will then direct the content of the text message to the VASP, typically using an IP protocol such as SMPP or EMI. Subscribers are charged ...

  5. Instant messaging - Wikipedia

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    Instant messaging (IM), sometimes also called "messaging" or "texting", consists of computer-based human communication between two users (private messaging) or more (chat room or "group") in real-time, allowing immediate receipt of acknowledgment or reply.

  6. Multi-tap - Wikipedia

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    The system is used by repeatedly pressing the same key to cycle through the letters for that key. For example, pressing the "3" key twice would indicate the letter "E". Pausing for a set period of time will automatically choose the current letter in the cycle, as will pressing a different key.

  7. Wait, What? Here's Exactly What 'DNI' Means on Social Media - AOL

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    DNI Meaning. These days, we have plenty of forms of communication—from phones, computers, social media and more. This has led to plenty of ways to communicate as well, like using shorthand and ...

  8. Text messaging - Wikipedia

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    Text messaging, or simply texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, tablet computers, smartwatches, desktops/laptops, or another type of compatible computer.

  9. T9 (predictive text) - Wikipedia

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    T9's objective is to make it easier to enter text messages. It allows words to be formed by a single keypress for each letter, which is an improvement over the multi-tap approach used in conventional mobile phone text entry at the time, in which several letters are associated with each key, and selecting one letter often requires multiple ...