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This evening I received a text message.

(It was from Andrew, incidentally.)

Upon receiving said message, my phone made a beeping sound.

This is not the first time this has happened.

The beeping sound I mean. Of course Andrew texts me all the time. He's, like, so like that.

Apologies: This article is really bad so far. Let's see if it gets any better. I think it will.

The beeping sound my phone makes has always struck me as a little asymetrical, and it has always bothered me a little. I would just prefer a simple, probably short, sustained pitch tone that is different from the sound my phone makes for an incoming call.

I'm picky this way.

Well, for some reason, probably just because I hadn't heard this sound in a little while, I listened a little more closely, and here's what I heard:

Short, short, short. Long, long. Short, short, short. (And then this repeats)

Suddenly, I realized for the first time that this might be Morse Code.

So, I did some research, and sure enough, my phone was beeping three letters: SMS.

Aha! Clever.

It's funny how just learning a little bit about how something is done can change your whole perception of something.

Now that beeping sequence is no longer off-putting, it's vaguely retro-glamorous.