The Legend of the Abbreves

There are many words in the English language. 1,025,109.8 words. There are many phones. 290,290,000 Americans with them. There are many lazy people. There is no way to determine this, but you know who you are! And, because of that, there are many abbreviations. Over 1,400 of them. That may not seem like lot...  The full list here.  Many of them are dumb and should never be used.  The fact that they exist though, mean people used them at least once.  That doesn't matter though.  They've already been made and I can't reverse time.  I wish I could though, that would be cool. Back on the topic at hand though, these abbreviations, known as abbreves by someone I don't know.  Another thing I don't know is what I will talk about.  I guess I could talk about the history of texting.  In 1933 the first telex service began in New York.  Telex was a network of machines made for sending text-based messages to other machines(Surprised there isn't any accounts of pranks!).  The first real text message sent said,"Merry Christmas!" and was sent to Richard Jarvis who was at a Christmas party at the time.  The full history of text messaging is very interesting, but a bit too long to put into one post, and I'm lazy and really need to get this post out. So here is the link for the history on text messages.

Keep Calm and Read This Post

Parody Poster

Keep Calm and Carry On is a widely known and popular phrase that people put on shirts, posters, and their computer and phone wallpapers.  It has a long and interesting history, spanning from 1938 to today's culture.  It started at the beginning of WWII for giving the British motivation to fight the "invaders".  All the posters were thought to have been burned in 1945.  But much like the "We Can Do It!" poster,  (which was America's motivational poster)an original "Keep Calm" was rediscovered in a book store.  The man who had found it.  It grew popular and was made into a meme and sold in stores and parodied.  It has become one of the most popular phrases in today's pop culture.  Although popularity has fallen in the past years, I still love Keep Calm merchandise.  It means to not care about what terrible things might be happening, and to just do as your normally would.