"texting a message used to take a time approximately proportional to the sum of the alphabetical indices of the message's characters modulo 3" is one of those things that is absolutely true but also 100% sounds like a shitpost if you weren't around for that era.
@gsuberland also subsequent characters in the same 3-group add a penalty
@nota @gsuberland When Tom Petty sang, "The waiting is the hardest part", I think it was about this.