On December 3, 1992, an engineer named Neil Papworth sent the very first SMS with "MERRY CHRISTMAS" on it, to his colleagues at Vodafone in Great Britain.
The technology was actually created by an Anglo-Dutch information technology firm called CMG, as reported in The Guardian.
According to Cor Stutterheim from CMG, "It started as a message service, allowing operators to inform all their own customers about things such as problems with the network. When we created SMS (Short Messaging Service) it was not really meant to communicate from consumer to consumer and certainly not meant to become the main channel which the younger generation would use to communicate with each other," added Stutterheim.
Fast forward to yesterday when Verizon Wireless said its customers sent and received more than 10 billion text messages last month, the highest monthly figure the company has yet posted.
Pretty incredible.
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[Source: Mobile Phone Blog]
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