Photos: Texting turns 20
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New York, UNITED STATES: Morgan Pozgar of Claysburg, Pennsylvania, uses a phone to send a text message as she competes in the LG National Texting Championship, 21 April 2007, at the Roseland Ballroom in New York, sponsored by LG Mobile Phones. Pozgar, who is 13-years-old, won several rounds to become "East Coast Champion" then defeated "West Coast Champion" Eli Tirosh of Los Angeles in the finals, texting the message: "Supercalifragilisticexpialidoucious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious. If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious", without abreviations. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)
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