As with many other technical wonders, you can quibble over who came up with the Short Message Service, or SMS, which fired off its first missive on December 3, 1992, with the words "Merry Christmas".

The first SMS text message was sent on December 3, 1992. Part of an early Vodafone test, the message was sent from a computer to a GSM handset on the carrier’s network. That first text read ...

But while the first SMS was sent in 1992, little has changed about the technology in that time. Although we had MMS - ‘multimedia messaging service’ - as an evolution of SMS, users couldn’t ...