Why can’t you unsend a text?
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Older internet technologies like SMS (simple message system) and SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) are essentially just conduits for a message. The message only ever lives in one place at one time. The protocols job is to initiate and validate a handshake between the sender’s tech and the receiver’s tech to make sure the message gets sent. This older technology was never designed to do anything other than just transfer a message from one IP to another.
On a side note, when developers were creating the protocol for scanners, they called it TWAIN. (Thing without an interesting name)
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