One of the most popular means of modern communication is celebrating its 20th birthday today. The very first text message was sent from a PC to a mobile phone on December 3, 1992, by then 22-year-old Neil Papworth over the Vodafone network in the UK.
This first text message, a precursor to the SMS that many of us now use on a daily basis, simply read “Merry Christmas.” As The Verge points out, the concept of the SMS was conceived a few years earlier but Papworth’s message was the first known text message to be sent to a handset.
The first true SMS to be sent between two phones didn’t take place until a year later in December 1993 on a GSM network between two Nokia phones. Nokia was one of the first manufacturers to fully deploy text messaging on their phones.
Other’s like Samsung quickly followed suit using a type of predictive text known as T9, which stans for Text on 9 keys. This technology ultimately led to a text messaging phenomenon that reached most parts of the world as early as the year 2000.
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