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[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago

....wait what?

I'm pretty tech savvy and had no idea I could edit a text...

Yes, am millennial... Lol

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 67 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

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

[-] CodingCarpenter@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

There's apparently a 15 minute window to edit

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago

How many people even remember MMS these days

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

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...

[-] moody@lemmings.world 12 points 1 day ago

These days, WAP is something completely different.

[-] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 day ago

Yeah, Wireless Access Point obviously. Duh

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I'm old, so old that I have no idea what you're talking about. Care to indulge an old man?

[-] moody@lemmings.world 7 points 1 day ago

It's a popular song by Cardi B. WAP stands for Wet Ass Pussy

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's right up my alley 🤓

[-] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Right up your WAP or...?

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

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...

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Holy. Fuck. I didn't think of that 🤣

[-] beetus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] P1nkman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

MMS is no longer universally supported among carriers

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

And nothing of value was lost.

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Fine by me, but why can't I send them SMS?

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[-] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Fmstrat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

What are some apps that support RCS? I'd prefer to keep Google, Apple, etc off my device.

[-] priapus@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 day ago

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

[-] zikzak025@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

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

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago
[-] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago

Blue bubbles aren't sms

It's probably not actually an SMS if it's apple to apple messaging, you're probably using imessage.

[-] voidsignal@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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