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98 points thunderbong | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.208s | source
1. lxgr ◴[] No.42479572[source]
Even though it never really took off (at least in Europe), I find SMS as a bearer medium for the WAP 1.0 stack fascinating.

One of my first PDAs could do something similar for sharing files as a series of concatenated binary SMS over an Infrared connection via a mobile phone.

The only problem was that SMS was paid per message in my country (double-digit cents each). Fortunately the preview dialog showed the estimated number of messages before sending – and it was something like 1000 for a small JPEG…