• Asafum
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    …wait what?

    I’m pretty tech savvy and had no idea I could edit a text…

    Yes, am millennial… Lol

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      SMS messages, you can’t (without two same apps with extensions).

      RCS messages, you can.

      These days, SMS and RCS messaging just come under the banner of “text messaging”. It’s pretty handy to be fair, blows MMS out of the water anyway.

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        Google Messages doesn’t seem to have an edit button despite specifically using “RCS message” as the placeholder text.

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          I do! I also remember using WAP to read the news. Well, my first venture on the internet was December 24 1994, so I am old…

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            Curious, why do you remember day 1 for you?

            I don’t know mine. I do remember sitting in my kitchen at the family computer listening to the modem connect via an AOL disc though. Sometime in the late 90s if I had to guess.

            Apparently in 1998 half of all cds produced worldwide had an AOL logo on them. Wild.

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              Because my 15 year older brother got it for Christmas for the family that year. We open gifts on the 24th, which if why I remember it.

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            A wireless access point? People still use them all the time… (also old here)

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              nah, Wireless Application Protocol - a way of serving web pages that was very similar to the HyperCard technology of the time.

              Ah, the memories of checking football scores on a Nokia 3330 in school playgrounds…

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                Oh yeah, that. I didn’t have a mobile then so almost completely missed that even existing, but now it does sound familiar having been dredged up from the depths of my memory.

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              Holy. Fuck. I didn’t think of that 🤣

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          I know one person still using MMS, because they refuse to get a Internet capable cellphone.
          There is one phone in our family that can send them SMS, everyone else gets error messages. How is that even possible? I thought SMS are standardized.

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                Missed that. Which side gets the error? The sender? Must be carrier weirdness.

                Alternatively, they opted in for RCS somewhere somehow but they don’t have an online RCS client so RCS capable senders get errors unless you explicitly set the app to send SMS only to this person

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          This post is a millennial trap, so I’d think most people here?

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          The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.

          Even if a third party app supported it, it’d still be completely reliant on Googles RCS services.

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          Not a lot because you need something that supports what your carrier use and there’s no userspace API exposed for it

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      Depends on the message. You can’t really edit an SMS.

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      Editing a SMS only works between two "smart"phones. Me, I see a second message starting with EDIT, and yes, I can see the previous shit you sent me forever.