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Meaning
What does mean?
143 is a well-liked online numeronym, representing the word “I Love You”.
The numbers are supposed to constitute the number of letters in each and every phrase;
I (1) L-O-V-E (4) Y-O-U (3)
Origin of the time period
There’s a legend at the back of the origin of “143”, ranging again to the flip of the 1900’s, when the Minot’s Ledge lighthouse in Massachusetts would introduce the 1-4-3 flash collection.
The legend says that Mary Thompson, spouse of Winfield Scott Thompson, advised their youngsters that the flashes had been their father’s means of telling them “I really like you”.
Unfold of the time period
“143” began spreading as some way of announcing “I really like you” in the 1980’s, when pagers had been presented in other folks’s lives.
Concurrently, it additionally seemed online, in early boards and chatrooms.
