[pfflier]

Kid from Hawaii, vacationed in Florida. My guess.

There's more to this and I don't think the bottle came from Hawaii. Wes text messaging that common 8 years ago?

[piusv]

There was text messaging with flip phones since 1989 (albeit much more difficult to type).

I’m hoping this is true. It’s a cool, positive story for once.

[MeanWestTexan]

“Wes text messaging that common 8 years ago?”

By the year 2000, the average user sent 35 text messages a day. That was 25 years ago.

Texting exploded in 2007 with the advent of the iPhone. That was 18 years ago.

So, yes, old timer, texting was common 8 years ago. Don’t forget to take your pills.

[Mogger]

Wes text messaging that common 8 years ago?

The note in the bottle said nothing about texting, just the number.

Being able to keep your phone number through many different phones over the years, the writer of the not may or may not have known about texting at the time of writing the note, and the phone may or may not have been capable of it.

Now it and they are, obviously.

[Blue Highway]

Especially from an 11 or 12 year old kid