Smile! You're on the Internet! :-)
And some people think text messaging is a new thing. It has actualy come full circle, because in the old days of the internet people used text symbols and short phrases to save a few bits of into. Oh the old days of the CIS and when AOL was America Online with a big fat modem hooked up between your phone and your computer :-)

Here's a great article on the old fashion text messaging . . .
Smile! You're on the Internet! :-)