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Back in the day when SMS text message was the way to send messages to each other over the mobile phone network (in the UK), people would jump the gun by sending
by Jaruzel 8y ago
Back in the day when SMS text message was the way to send messages to each other over the mobile phone network (in the UK), people would jump the gun by sending 'Happy NY!' messages 5 minutes before midnight, because the moment 12am hit, any messages sent then could be queued for hours as the mobile networks struggled to cope with the massive uptick in messages being sent at the same time.
- Semaphor 8y agoI used to use bulk sending tools (yeah, they existed as J2ME apps) to send 10-50 SMS (it's been a while, not sure how many it was) and some would only arrive on January 1st quite a while into the day. At some point, it changed and everything would arrive just a few minutes after sending. I think that was when we had iPhone and Android already and I'm not sure if it was because of messengers (were there any back then?) or because the German telcos finally upgraded their infrastructure enough.