On December 3, 1992, 22-year-old software architect Neil Papworth sent the world's first SMS text message (SMS = Short Message Service). Although the concept of SMS technology was originally ...

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".

MCEVERS: At the time, mobile phones couldn't respond to text messages, so Jarvis didn't return the greeting. And that was it. KELLY: So all of that predates NPR's first mention of cell phone text ...

over 60 billion messages were sent each day. SMS has also become a preferred method for reminders and alerts, for everything from medical appointments to weather warnings. The first phone call was ...

We reached out to Neil Papworth, the man who sent the world's first text message, to find out where he sees the future of SMS to lie. Did you and the team at Sema Group foresee the impact SMS ...

The first SMS message sent to a mobile phone was in December 1992 by an engineer for IT services company Sema Group named Neil Papworth (it read "Merry Christmas"). The first commercial SMS ...

The first text message was sent to this model ... According to Statista, there were 40 billion SMS messages sent in 2021 in the UK, down from 150bn in 2012. By contrast, there are 100 billion ...

HBD, text messaging! The first SMS text was sent 20 years ago today by Neil Papworth, then a 22-year-old communications engineer working in the United Kingdom. Papworth's SMS — Short Messaging ...

On Dec 21, Aguttes will auction the world’s first SMS, sent in 1992. It will be offered in the form of a unique certified digital token – an NFT – estimated to fetch between €100,000 ...