Menarik nih. kenapa SMS koq cuman 160 karakter. (thinking) mengutip sebuah Blog post di LATimes, asal mula pemilihan 160 karakter adalah sebagai berikut.
Alone in a room in his home in Bonn, Germany, Friedhelm Hillebrand sat at his typewriter, tapping out random sentences and questions on a sheet of paper.
As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters.
