A Brief History of Texting and Dating

Sometimes the gods of sarcasm have such perfect timing that even I can't deny them the publicity they deserve.  This arrived in my inbox this morning from HistoricalLOLs.com:

Granted, I've been known to venture into The Land of Unacceptable Texts (one such example for your reading and historical pleasure, one of many both shared and not shared), but I'm starting to see that there really is no excuse for it.  Now or in the eighteenth century.