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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 ...
As part of this project, he sent the world's first text message, on 3 December 1992, at the age of 22. It was sent from a computer. It was sent from a computer. The message was "Merry Christmas", and was sent to Richard Jarvis, a director at Vodafone , who was enjoying his office Christmas party.
Friedhelm Hillebrand is a German engineer who has been influential in setting mobile telecommunications standards.Hillebrand is one of the inventors of the SMS, [1] [2] as he and Frenchman Bernard Ghillebaert created the concept for the service in 1984. [3]
In 2010, almost half a million silent SMS messages were sent by the German federal police, customs and the federal domestic intelligence service Verfassungsschutz. [67] [68] These silent messages, also known as silent TMS, stealth SMS, stealth ping or Short Message Type 0, [69] are used to locate a person and thus to create a complete movement ...
Matti Makkonen (16 April 1952 – 26 June 2015) was a Finnish engineer in the field of mobile communications. [1] [2] He was employed (among others) by Nokia Networks and the then Telecom Finland (branded as Tele), as well as Finnet [] Oy. [3]
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus flag semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not.
The Zephyr Notification Service (still in use at some institutions) was invented at MIT's Project Athena in the 1980s to allow service providers to locate and send messages to users. Command-line Unix "talk", using a split screen user interface, was popular in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Cooke and Wheatstone's five-needle telegraph from 1837 Morse telegraph Hughes telegraph, an early (1855) teleprinter built by Siemens and Halske. Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century.