World’s first text message sent 25 years ago yesterday

We don’t want to make you feel old but it has been 25 years since the first text message was sent. Yep, people started exchanging texts a quarter of a century ago. Yesterday (December 3,2017) was the anniversary of the first SMS (short message service), which simply said ‘Merry Christmas’. It was typed by test […]

We don’t want to make you feel old but it has been 25 years since the first text message was sent.

Yep, people started exchanging texts a quarter of a century ago.

Yesterday (December 3,2017) was the anniversary of the first SMS (short message service), which simply said ‘Merry Christmas’.

It was typed by test engineer Neil Papworth in 1992, who was 22 years old at the time.

He sent it to his colleague using his PC as a way of celebrating the milestone.