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Be prepared to feel ancient -- the first text message is 25 years old. Engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS on December 3rd, 1992, when he wrote "merry Christmas" on a computer and sent it to ...
Papworth gained popularity during the 10th and 20th anniversaries of the first text message, as highlighted in the press, and has been featured in several outlets such as a Super Bowl commercial, [7] a documentary movie, [10] a Jeopardy! question, [7] and radio talk shows. [citation needed]
In 2006, the Prime Minister of Finland, Matti Vanhanen, made the news when he allegedly broke up with his girlfriend with a text message. [citation needed] In 2007, the first book written solely in text messages, Viimeiset viestit (Last Messages), was released by Finnish author Hannu Luntiala. It is about an executive who travels through Europe ...
The first text message was sent by engineer Neil Papworth on December 3 1992 and read simply, “Merry Christmas”. “In the 30 years since SMS text messaging has been in use, messaging ...
Would you believe that the very first text message was sent on December 3, 1992? Fast forward to today, and we’re sending an incredible 8.4 trillion text messages a year.
All first installations of SMS gateways were for network notifications sent to mobile phones, usually to inform of voice mail messages. [citation needed] The first commercially sold SMS service was offered to consumers, as a person-to-person text messaging service by Radiolinja (now part of Elisa) in Finland in 1993.
The first message that was sent through a computer was on October 29, 1969, by Raymond Tomlinson. [20] Text message. A text message is defined as a short message sent electronically usually from one cellphone to another. [21] The first text message was sent on December 3, 1992, developed by Finnish engineer Matti Makkonen. [22]
The first SMS, what we call texting today, was sent on Dec. 3, 1992, by Neil Papworth, a British programmer who was working on mobile message technology. The first text didn’t come from a phone.