On 04/05/2010 05:26 PM, Benjamin Scott wrote: > (Or maybe it does; hypothetical situations are > tough to analyze. :) ) > In theory, hypothetical situations are easy to analyze. In reality,...
> In that vein: WRT short text messages (SMS, microblogging, etc.), is > there any reason to suppose 140 characters shouldn't remain the limit > forever, even if the technology changes to allow more? Maybe 30 years > from now, "140 characters" will have a historical footnote mentioning > the original SMS implementation, much like we footnote "80 columns" > with a mention of IBM punched cards. There is a wonderful essay that explains that modern railroad track gauge is based on wagon wheel width, which in turn is based on the tracks left by a horse team, which in turn harks back to the Roman's hitching of pairs of horses. Hence railroad gauge is the width of two horses' asses. Snopes says nope, http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp but the thought is still worth a chuckle. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/