"143" nghĩa là gì?

"143" -> mã số của I love you, được dùng nhiều trên máy nhắn tin vào những năm 1990.

Ví dụ

The cultural impact of the devices was also measurable by the creation of “pager-speak”, where people used short codes such as 911 for an emergency and 143 for “I love you” to communicate.

Mari gives the Bachelor a homemade boarding pass (Flight 143, for "I Love You") that also doubles as a "get-to-know-me" bio. She's printed some fun facts about herself on the back, including that she's from Puerto Rico. Mari has just started telling Matt about how much she worries about her grandparents who still live in Puerto Rico when Katie walks up and taps her on the shoulder… with the vibrator. Gross. (Mari spends the rest of the night complaining that she was "tapped by a dildo.")

If you didn't have an early cellphone -- and sometimes even if you did -- a pager (máy nhắn tin) (or beeper as they were called on TV medical dramas) was a way to show how popular or important you were. Today the whole process for using one feels as archaic (cổ xưa) as setting your VCR to tape Melrose Place (see below): Dial a number, wait for a beep, enter the phone number for calling you back and hope your recipient is both near a phone and cares enough to actually follow through with your request. Pagers also let us send an early form of text message by inputting numbers that would either be code for some phrases or roughly spell out others. Some were obvious like "07734" for "hello" (when turned upside down), and 911 for "call me now!" But others such as 143 for "I love you" took a little more thought. Don't get it? Add up the number of letters in each word: I (1) Love (4) You (3).

Bài trước: "Back dimples" nghĩa là gì?