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First Text Was Sent To A Mobile 20 Years Ago


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By By Richard Suchet, Sky News Reporter

Tomorrow marks 20 years since the first text message was sent to a mobile phone.

The first SMS was sent on December 3, 1992, when a 22-year-old British engineer called Neil Papworth - an employee of the technology company Sema - used his computer to send the message "Merry Christmas" to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone.

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It was not long after this that one of our prominent members whose name starts with S developed a way to spam users with SMS....if he was not such a nice member I would hate him.

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