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 ...

you can quibble over who came up with the Short Message Service, or SMS, which fired off its first missive on December 3, 1992, with the words "Merry Christmas".

The first SMS message sent to a mobile phone was in December 1992 by an engineer for IT services company Sema Group named Neil Papworth (it read "Merry Christmas"). The first commercial SMS ...

The very first text message, a simple “Merry Christmas”, was sent on Dec 3, 1992, by Neil Papworth, an employee of a British computer company, to Vodafone director, Richard Jarvis. It was not ...