Hppy bthdy txt msng! The text turns twenty today
Excerpt:Interestingly, the technology that would start a cultural revolution in how people communicate, did not originate from some high-tech lab in Silicon Valley, Calif. The world's first SMS text (which stands for short message system) came from an office in Newbury, southern England. Reading "Merry Christmas" -- and not "Merry Xmas" or ": -) Xmas" -- the message was sent on December 3, 1992, by 22-year-old engineer Neil Papworth of the technology company Sema to a colleague at Vodafone UK who was enjoying a staff Christmas party. 'Initially the idea was for them to use it essentially as a paging service. '- Neil Papworth, who sent the world's first text message Papworth was part of the team developing a Short Message Service Center for Vodafone UK. Deployed with the first GSM networks, SMS relied on concepts developed in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand of Germany and Bernard Ghillebaert of France.
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Neil Papworth
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| 0 | "I was chosen to go to Vodafone's Newbury offices to install, integrate and test the software and get it all working. Initially the idea was for them to use it essentially as a paging service," Papworth said. ... |
| 0 | "I feel good that I was there and did what I did. I didn't know what would happen with text messaging after that though," Papworth told ... |
| 0.0149656 | "I've given radio interviews, been flown to London with my family for a movie premiere, featured in a Super Bowl ad, been an answer to a Jeopardy question and had many articles written on the achievement," Papworth said. ... |
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Hppy bthdy txt msng! The text turns twenty today
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Text messaging, or txt msng, if you like, turns 20 today. But the tech did not originate from some high-tech lab in Silicon Valley. The world's first SMS came from an office park in England.
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