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b40d-48b2-979eyesterday at 5:20 PM1 replyview on HN

    There weren’t any infrastructure costs to sending the first SMS ever,
Hah. Someone wasn't alive for the 90s.

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DANmodeyesterday at 8:19 PM

Someone didn’t read all of the words ^_^

Infrastructure costs were marginal, near 0,

because SMS was just 140 bytes of text stuffed into already-occurring network traffic

between phone<->telco.

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