I was regularly texting in 1998 with friends at university i.e. they'd taken off sufficiently that within 5 years poor university students were texting each oth

I was regularly texting in 1998 with friends at university i.e. they'd taken off sufficiently that within 5 years poor university students were texting each other. It was always a case of buying a £5 credit, or you might text a friend back a few days later because you had no credit. I even remember in my sixth-form, in 1995/1996 one guy did a presentation for his physics assignment about how using a mobile fried your brain, and the richer (middle-class) kids all had one by then. So this isn't true at all, within 2/3 years it was becoming main-stream in the UK. I still remember in the early 2000s Americans in their TV shows were all about pagers, which never really took off in the UK, and it was like they lived in a totally different world, communication wise.