Autocorrect began with T9 in the 1990s

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Autocorrect began with T9 in the 1990s

The first autocorrect-like feature, T9, revolutionized mobile texting in the late 1990s by predicting words on numeric keypads, making communication faster and easier.

Before smartphones, typing on early cell phones was a chore. But in the late 1990s, a game-changing feature called T9, developed by Tegic Communications, brought the first form of autocorrect to mobile devices.

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