Around the middle of the decade

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Solution
the App Store was filled with software solutions to the drunk texting problem. There was Drunk Text Savior, a text analyzer that warned users “You may be drunk!” if they tried to send a text riddled with typos or inept flirtations; On Second Thought, a messaging replacement that let users take back a text within the first 60 seconds of sending it. There was Drunk Mode and TUI Stopper, apps that let users block specific contacts whenever they knew they were going to be drinking. But the $1.99 Drunk Dial NO! peru number data may have taken things a step further: Reviews say the app was so buggy that it would continue to block a contact even after a set period of time had passed, no matter if you reset your phone.

In 2016, New York artist Hanny Ahern came to the aid of lovers—drunk or sober—who were sending texts they later regretted. Her project, When I Think of You, I Text Myself, was inspired by her own self-disciplined habit of sending risqué texts to her own phone number, rather than to an imaginary recipient. Anyone could send the texts to a “surrogate texting hotline” instead of “addressing unrequited love, venting angrily about a co-worker, or any other emotional venting or poetic reverie.” The texts were supposed to be sent back to their senders at intervals of three, six, nine, and 12 months, but Ahern had a miscommunication with the project’s developer, and the messages have remained in limbo for the past three years. Thousands of people from 17 countries sent their texts into the time capsule, and they never returned.

One of the most successful sites, adapted by Adam Sandler's company, Last Night's Texts, now gets about 150,000 visitors a month. The promised TV show never happened. The merch store redirects to an empty domain. The site's advertiser, American Apparel, is gone, partly rocked by the text messaging scandal.

Texts From Last Night is archived by the Library of Congress, according to Bator, who says it's still popular on Instagram (sort of), and insists drunk text messages keep coming in: "A lot of people have had terrible or really funny experiences with texting."