DO YOU KNOW
WHY
text messages are limited to 160 characters?
latimesblogs.latimes.com — Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany,
Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random
sentences and questions on a sheet of paper. As he went along,
Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation
marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two
and nearly always clocked in under 160
characters.
now you know...