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Be prepared to feel ancient -- the first text message is 25 years old. Engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS on December 3rd, 1992, when he wrote "merry Christmas" on a computer and sent it to ...
In 1992, Neil Papworth was working as a developer and test engineer at Sema Group Telecoms, in a team developing a Short Message Service Centre for their customer, Vodafone UK in Newbury, Berkshire. As part of this project, he sent the world's first text message, on 3 December 1992, at the age of 22. It was sent from a computer.
In the year 2002, 366 billion SMS text messages were sent globally, [50] a number that rose to 6.1 trillion (6.1 × 10 12) in 2010, [10] which is an average of 193,000 messages per second. The global average price for an SMS message is US$0.11, while mobile networks charge each other interconnect fees of at least US$0.04 when connecting between ...
The first SMS, what we call texting today, was sent on Dec. 3, 1992, by Neil Papworth, a British programmer who was working on mobile message technology.
Would you believe that the very first text message was sent on December 3, 1992? Fast forward to today, and we’re sending an incredible 8.4 trillion text messages a year. That’s a lot of ...
The first message that was sent through a computer was on October 29, 1969, by Raymond Tomlinson. [20] Text message. A text message is defined as a short message sent electronically usually from one cellphone to another. [21] The first text message was sent on December 3, 1992, developed by Finnish engineer Matti Makkonen. [22]
New research shows that SMS messages remain popular despite a wide range of modern alternatives. 30 years of the text message – Nearly one in three still send them daily Skip to main content
In the United States, text messaging is very popular; as reported by CTIA in December 2009, the 286 million US subscribers sent 152.7 billion text messages per month, for an average of 534 messages per subscriber per month. [60] The Pew Research Center found in May 2010 that 72% of U.S. adult cellphone users send and receive text messages. [61]