On December 3, 1992, 22-year-old software architect Neil Papworth sent the world's first SMS text message (SMS = Short Message Service). Although the concept of SMS technology was originally ...

Send text messages. Having a serious discussion and want to preserve a written record? Text message. December 3rd marks the anniversary of the first text message ever sent, in 1992. Short Message ...

In Britain, the world's first SMS text message was sent between two engineers, unaware of how it would change the world or of the amazing 5G Android phones that you would one day be able to send ...

Twenty years on from the first text message — sent on December 3, 1992 — we look at how the technology rose from a humble beginning to become the world’s most popular data application.

It was in December 1992 that the very first SMS message – simply reading 'Merry Christmas' – was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth from his computer to colleague Richard Jarvis ...