Is text messaging really the first important means of communication invented by humans?

It is said that the invention of mobile phone text messaging has always been considered to be Finland: a country with "social phobia". People don't like talking on the phone, so they invented text messaging on a whim. In actual records, the first real mobile phone text message was typed and sent by a Nokia intern in 1993, and the content was "Merry Christmas".

In the following decades, the widespread popularity of mobile phones made text messaging one of the most commonly used communication methods. In "Zhiming and Chunjiao", Zhang Zhiming's heartbeat and love turned into radio waves, and a "beep" sound appeared on the screen of Chunjiao's mobile phone; in "Perfect Strangers", text messages became ruined because of an impromptu game proposed at dinner. A powerful tool for losing the trust of friends and lovers.

In those years, we used text messages to convey love, greetings, and record our lives. You must also remember this picture. The mobile phone often prompts that the memory is insufficient. You read them one by one in the text box, and there are always some that you can’t bear to delete.

Now that you use a smartphone, you no longer have such worries. But instead, your precious memories will no longer be stored in the text message box. You look at countless merchant advertisements, express delivery information, and warm reminders, and you don't even bother to press the delete button. But occasionally, there may be a text message notification sound that pulls you back to the past. You guess it may be an old friend sending greetings that you haven't seen for many years.

We want to pick up the fragments of those memories, so we launched a collection, the content of which is that text message in your mobile phone that you can’t bear to delete. Within 24 hours, we received more than 300 responses. Many readers found their old Nokia, Sony, and HTC phones and took pictures of those tiny screens for us; and to our surprise, more readers The picture was saved and sent to us in the form of a screenshot. We were pleasantly surprised to find that text messaging had not completely lost its mission.

We have selected some text messages that are either sweet, sad, touching, or sad. Their carriers are different, and the quality of the pictures is also "uneven." They are not so beautiful, but they are particularly touching. We would like to invite you to join us and go back to those days when there were no emoticons or circles of friends, and we only relied on words to convey feelings.