The world’s first text message was sent by British engineer Neil Papworth during the Christmas season.
Texting has become an integral part of everyone’s lives. People of all ages send each other text messages for various reasons, with some preferring text over phone calls. The world’s first text message was sent thirty years ago, on Dec 3, 1992.The message was sent by Neil Papworth, a British engineer and developer who worked for Sema Group Telecom at the time, a company that created a Short Message Service Centre for their customer, Vodaphone.
It works by signaling a nearby cellular tower over a control channel, and then into an SMS center. Then, the SMS resends the message to a cellular tower closest to the recipient, going to the receiver’s phone.The text message service originated from radiotelegraphy, a form of radio communication that used coded signals such as Morse code.
A Vodaphone engineer in Berkshire the U.K. sent the first text message in 1992. Neil Papworth sent the first ever text to his colleague, Richard Jarvis, who at the time was at a Christmas party. The phone Jarvis received the first text on was the novel Orbitel 901 handset, which weighed almost 5 pounds .Although the phone was considered large and bulky at the time, it still made history as the device that received the first text message was ever, after being sent.
Although there are new app-to-app messaging servers such as Facebook Messenger, iMessage, and WhatsApp, text messaging still remains one of the most commonly used form of mobile phone messaging, and it all started with the first “Merry Christmas” text sent 30 years ago.
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