All technology has a beginning, and SMS came a long time ago.
They were not easy times. The first devices that allowed power communicate with each other with simple words The writing was crude, inelegant, and with screens that increased diopters with each glance. Nevertheless, 30 years ago a way of engaging in conversations arrived that few predicted would survive to this day: the text messages. If you want know the history of the first SMSnow you can have applications to send them for free, now we will tell you.
This is the phone model used to send the first SMS. BBC
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The day December 3, 1992 is the key date in this story. Recently, according to information published by the BBC digital media, we have commemorated the irruption of the first text message, which given the dates we are on seems a bit ahead of its date. It was Neil Papworth, a Vodafone engineer of Berkshire, who had the honor of conducting this first shipment. On that occasion, the addressee It was none other than one of the bosses of the technology company, Richard Jarviswho was at a Christmas party.
Graph of the number of SMS sent from the year 2004 to 2021. Statista
In its Orbital 901a mobile device that weighed 2.1 kilograms and that today would be 10 iPhone 14 Pro together, He received a concise congratulations: ‘Merry Christmas’. In case you still have to pass your next English test: ‘Merry Christmas’. These two words were the forerunners of a communication system that would reach his peak popularity back in 2007 in our country, as you can see in the graph that we show you on these lines. It was in this year that they were sent 9.54 billion text messagesa figure that has been decreasing each year, until staying at a meager 870 million SMS in 2021.
Nowadays, communication applications have completely replaced this systemwhich despite the fact that it is still used daily, no longer has the power of yesteryear, when you could only spend 160 characters and each message had an associated cost. nigel lingeProfessor at the University of Salford, ensures that:
Device manufacturers didn’t include QWERTY keyboards, because phones were made for making calls and receiving messages, not sending them. These days, people spend more time looking at their phones than talking on them. SMS was the catalyst for that transition.