12-04-2022, 09:45 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-63825894
The text message is celebrating its 30th birthday - the first was sent to a mobile phone by a Vodafone engineer in Berkshire in the UK on 3 December 1992.
It was sent in order to test out the tech, and read "Merry Christmas".
Neil Papworth sent it to one of the firm's bosses, Richard Jarvis, who was at a Christmas party. He did not get a reply.
Mr Jarvis's phone, a new-to-the-market Orbitel 901, weighed 2.1kg - roughly the same as 12 standard iPhone 14s.
At its peak, phone users exchanged billions of SMS - or Short Message Service - messages every year, and in 2010 the word "texting" entered the dictionary.
Honestly, I don't know whether this is surprisingly old or surprisingly new... it feels like it's been around forever, but then, I was 2 years old when it was first introduced, so it was still quite new when I first encountered it !
In spite of the availability of things like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, I do still use it sometimes... what about you?
The text message is celebrating its 30th birthday - the first was sent to a mobile phone by a Vodafone engineer in Berkshire in the UK on 3 December 1992.
It was sent in order to test out the tech, and read "Merry Christmas".
Neil Papworth sent it to one of the firm's bosses, Richard Jarvis, who was at a Christmas party. He did not get a reply.
Mr Jarvis's phone, a new-to-the-market Orbitel 901, weighed 2.1kg - roughly the same as 12 standard iPhone 14s.
At its peak, phone users exchanged billions of SMS - or Short Message Service - messages every year, and in 2010 the word "texting" entered the dictionary.
Honestly, I don't know whether this is surprisingly old or surprisingly new... it feels like it's been around forever, but then, I was 2 years old when it was first introduced, so it was still quite new when I first encountered it !
In spite of the availability of things like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, I do still use it sometimes... what about you?
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