Old School Fridays – First Text Message (SMS)

You guys didn’t think I would let Friday end without an “Old School Friday” post did you? This weeks Old School Friday post is all about the first text message. The first text message was a SMS text. In case you don’t know SMS stands for Short Message Service. SMS was initially created to send message, up to 160 characters in length, from one GSM phone to another.

The first SMS message ever sent was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992. Neil Papworth of the Sema Group used his personal to send a SMS message via his computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone who used a Orbitel 901 handset to receive the message. Can you guess what the first text message said? The first text message was a simple “Merry Christmas”. The first SMS typed on a GSM phone is claimed to have been sent by Riku Pihkonen, an engineering student at Nokia, in 1993. No word on what the message said. So remember, next time you send a tesxt message it all began back in 92′.

Some info courtesy of wikipedia