We are a little late with this, (over a week actually, we must be under the weather) but fifteen years ago on the the 3rd of this month some telecoms boffins threw their arms into the sky in elation and cried “Finally, a good use for opposable thumbs!“ (probably). And so the SMS was born.
The chap that sent it was Neil Papworth who wrote simply ‘Merry Christmas’ and sent it over the Vodafone network (incidentally, Papworth still works as a telecoms engineer for Airwide). As we reported a while back, 1.2 billion SMS’s are sent every week and their popularity is showing no signs of waning.
Here’s to texting then, let’s just hope they are a bit cheaper (as in free) by the time they hit their 30th anniversary.
(Via Fring)
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