Messaging, 160 Words!?

Have you ever wandered why text messaging has always been restricted to 160 words per message?

According to LATIMES:

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.

That became Hillebrand's magic number -- and set the standard for one of today's most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging.

"This is perfectly sufficient," he recalled thinking during that epiphany of 1985, when he was 45 years old. "Perfectly sufficient."

So, Tis is why we alws gets msgs like ths

Or ppl gibing kyut msgs 2 u lke ds! <3

KAYAAAA I LURB EUUUUUUU!!! WTF