First text message sent from personal computer to Vodafone network. The first text message sent 21 years ago.
Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group (now Airwide Solutions), sent the first text message on December 3, 1992.
From his personal computer to the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis.
First text message sent from personal computer to Vodafone network.
The text message read “Merry Christmas” (note, not “mry xmas” as it would most likely abbreviated now, 20 years after this first text).
Omnipotent Communications, the first GSM carrier in America, set up the first text messaging service in the United States.
Initial growth of text messaging and SMS (short messaging services) was slow. Indeed, in 1995.
Only 0.4 messages per GSM customer were sent on average per month. Texting in part held back by billing confusion from operators.
However, it estimated that 2011 revenue for operators from texting topped $585 billion.
Also in 2011, the Oxford Dictionary added the common texting acronym “LOL” (laughing out loud or laugh out loud) to its listing.
Texting has become so prominent in everyday life that the Emily Post Institute offers etiquette tips for texting here.
And Texting while driving rated more dangerous than drinking and driving in the United States.
Texting is a major staple of communication now, and by far the main use of a phone for many, but it didn’t start out that way.
In the very beginning, texts where just a way to send network notifications, namely to let you know you had a voice-mail.
In 1993, Nokia became the first company to make GEM handsets capable of person-to-person texting, but it still didn’t skyrocket to popularity for several years.
By 1995, people were only sending .4 text messages a month on average.
Things couldn’t be more wildly different today. In 2010, the world sent over 6.1 trillion messages, or roughly 193,000 per second.
First text message sent from personal computer to Vodafone network.
And that’s just good old-fashioned SIMS, not the dozens upon dozens of services it’s inspired.
So while you’re launching your daily flurry of textuals, take a second to consider the fact that your inane contributions.
Part of an unimaginable avalanche of data. It’s txting’s bday u guys.
