Saturday, 8 December 2012

First SMS sent 20 years ago

Seems to be varying stories as to who originated SMS ...
Also have a look at the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging
Whoever actually started "texting" first doesn't really matter - there is no doubt it has had phenomenal effect on personal communications.

First text message sent 20 years ago today:
text20thumbIt was 20 years ago today that the first text message was sent by Canadian Neil Papworth and little did he know he would be changing the way we communicate. Papworth, a 22-year old software engineer, was seated at a computer terminal on December 3, 1992 in the Newbury office of Sema to test a new messaging system for the Vodafone network. His first message was sent to a company colleague in another building where Vodafone was celebrating its Christmas party.

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