{"id":175,"date":"2013-06-16T08:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T06:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=175"},"modified":"2013-06-16T08:23:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-16T06:23:16","slug":"the-internet-is-about-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"The Internet is about Communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me, the fascinating thing about the internet is that it helps me to communicate. That&#8217;s why I am using emails, Twitter, XING, LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoogroups, Flickr, the like. And yes, this blog, too &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is one kind of communication that has become a little overlooked in recent years. (I am not talking about ordinary, non-digital, face-to-face communication. I like that, too). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dinnerout1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dinnerout1.jpg\" alt=\"dinnerout\" width=\"728\" height=\"565\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dinnerout1.jpg 728w, http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dinnerout1-300x232.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/dinnerout1-386x300.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am talking about text messaging, also called SMS by some. Sometimes, text messages are a great way to communicate. Forget about smart phones. Forget about WhatsApp. I am talking about a plain old text message, 160 characters, nothing else. It goes directly to a person&#8217;s mobile phone, it is clear, concise and will even work on your grandmother&#8217;s mobile phone which hasn&#8217;t had a software update for 20 years, and never will have one.<\/p>\n<p>One of the pioneers of this kind of communication is Reiner. Three cheers to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rusch-hour.com\" title=\"Rusch Hour\" target=\"_blank\">www.rusch-hour.com<\/a><br \/>\nHip, Hip, Hurray!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/einstein1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/einstein1.jpg\" alt=\"einstein\" width=\"773\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-176\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/einstein1.jpg 773w, http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/einstein1-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.020965.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/einstein1-494x300.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 773px) 100vw, 773px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me, the fascinating thing about the internet is that it helps me to communicate. That&#8217;s why I am using emails, Twitter, XING, LinkedIn, Facebook, Yahoogroups, Flickr, the like. And yes, this blog, too &#8230; There is one kind of communication that has become a little overlooked in recent years. (I am not talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,9,17,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG60H-2P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.020965.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}