The mGage team looks back on 28 years of the humble, but highly effective, text message.
This year we celebrate SMS turning 28 years old. On 3 December 1992, Neil Papworth sent the first SMS by typing “Merry Christmas” on a computer and sending it to Richard Jarvis at Vodafone. Thus, the first version of the modern-day text message we all know, and love was born.
It’s hard to imagine a life without texting, but the technology didn’t catch on right away. Most early mobile phones did not support the ability to send texts and operators were slow to decide on a way to bill customers for the service. In 1995, according to the GSMA, mobile users sent an average of only 0.4 text messages per day. These days, most people send much more than one text per day, with
Article source: https://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/celebrating-28-years-of-sms
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