I would rather have my good friend bang my spouse while drunk, than drive drunk.
Good lord this meme is old. If this meme was a person it would be in highschool.
The first time I saw this meme I was laughing so hard I fell of my dinosaur
My first time seeing it.
I know these are generally fake, but they always grind my gears a bit. Literally just screenshot the full message with the “not delivered” part and resend the screenshot until it goes through.
I mean what would make even more sense would be to not split up the message so randomly, but then again that would spoil the joke
SMS has a character limit, although most modern phones that still use SMS will at least give you a 3/3 thing and send all three texts at once.
The limit was 140 characters which is also the reason why twitter originally had a 140 character limit: you were able to tweet by SMS
Had some android phones that wouldn’t even notify you if your message didn’t send for like 45 minutes.
Kinda interesting to hear about this stuff as someone who grew up when everyone was already on WhatsApp (at least here in Germany)
The cause of this for SMS is not the phone, but the network, and the underlying technology. SMS is push-based, compared to Internet messaging which is pull-based, and uses a backoff-based redelivery mechanism. Once your message is sent and has been received by your carrier, deliver is attempted, but if the recipient handset is unavailable the carrier will try periodically to redeliver, and if it still fails the wait period between delivery attempts will increase the longer the recipient is unavailable. May be every five minutes for the first hour, but then once an hour for the next 24, for example.
Each message is its own distinct entity which is treated separately for delivery, just like letters in the post. That’s why it was possible to get this sort of odd-seeming scenario where you have a newer message that made it through, while an older one is still stuck in retry somewhere.
Makes sense. I think it’s similar to how email works, right?
Email has bits of both in the chain.
Using the olden-days of desktop email apps as an example then:
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- You compose an email and push it to your email provider
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- Your provider pushes the email to the provider of the recipient address (including retying if necessary)
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- The recipient user “checks for new emails” and pulls down new ones from the provider to their local app
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The issue most likely seemed to me to be just that plus the fact that the google service would never retry on SMS when switched back to SMS. So your message wouldn’t be sent until the recipient had a WiFi connection. Ridiculous implementation.
But that‘s literally what this is: A screenshot. What you are describing might be exactly how it transpired.
this guy gets jokes
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remember when sms didn’t auto-stitch? those were the days
Okay grandpa, now tell us about your magic “t9” and not even looking at your phone while we put you to bed.
(Jk I too am old and I miss physical buttons and when autocomplete didn’t stop you from swearing or rewrite your text 3 words later so it looks like you’re having a stroke)
I hated T9 T-T With a passion. Always had disabled autocomplete on physical - typed faster without it. I mean, how hard it is to memorise simple layout anyway? Sometimes muscle memory still kicks in and find myself typing on typical physical number keyboard fast, then get surprised I did it and then I cannot do it again at all because now I am thinking about it xD
t9 keypad? Meh.
Flex t9? Shit was flawless.
Back in my kid days, SMS was too expensive to just text around. If you had a prepaid card, the provider would offer to send one asking for a callback if you ran out of balance. We would use these to communicate, like after school one callback SMS was “yeah I’m coming to hang out” two was “no time today, sorry”.
The upside is that when 3rd party messengers and wifi became a thing, everyone ditched SMS, so the green bubble / blue bubble Apple insanity is a non-starter since nobody uses iMessage anyway. Also no peer pressure to buy iPhones from it.
We also used to send memes to each other by infra port, we would hide the phones in someone’s desk next to each other, one meme transfer took a whole class.
Ugh duck autocorrect.
I’ve had phones that regularly would say not delivered and the message definitely did.
