Twenty years ago, British engineer Neil Papworth sent the world's first text message, "Merry Christmas," to a mobile phone. Although SMS (Short Message Service) was originally conceived some years before, with hindsight Papworth's message was momentous moment in the history of communications. At the time, however, the young engineer had no concept of how big texting would be. "We thought SMS was a clever way for a company's staff to send simple messages to one another," he told the Daily Mail last year, "I'd never have predicted that it would spread into the consumer world... at the time it didn't seem like a big deal."
"It didn't seem like a big deal."
Just a year later, Nokia had fully embraced the SMS, with all of its GSM handsets...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/3/3721266/text-message-20-year-anniversary-neil-papworth
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