Communication · 1992

Text messaging (SMS)

'Merry Christmas' is sent as the first text message.

Neil Papworth sent the first SMS, from a computer to a phone, on 3 December 1992 over the Vodafone GSM network. Limited to 160 characters, texting became one of the most used communication tools of the 2000s, with trillions sent a year.

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