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text·ing | \ ˈtek-stiŋ 
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\Definition of texting
: the act or activity of sending text messages from one cell phone to another
When I moved to Chicago, I used a paper map that folded in your lap to navigate the city. There was no Internet, no e-mail, no texting… . A few people in the late eighties had giant cell phones that lived in tiny suitcases, and I saw some in movies.— Amy Poehler Texting freed a generation from the strictures and inconvenience (and awkwardness) of phone calls, while allowing people to be more loosely and constantly connected.— Jenna Wortham
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The first known use of texting was in 1999
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