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[diggan]

> And yet, we all coped with SMS.

We literally didn't, otherwise MMS wouldn't have been as popular as it was :)

Personally I too prefer plaintext in almost every case. But I also understand why people don't share that preference.

[lproven → diggan]

In my world, MMS never was popular. Where do you live?

[diggan → lproven]

Live in Spain, but grew up in Sweden, am around 30 years old. In late 90s/early 2000s, MMS was wildly popular among my peers.

[lproven → diggan]

Huh. OK, then. Interesting datapoint. It was a PITA flop in the UK -- it occasionally kicked in when an SMS went over length or you added a smiley, and cost you 10x as much to send.