{"id":4178,"date":"2017-12-03T21:10:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2017-12-03T21:10:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T04:10:27","slug":"worlds-first-sms-text-message-sent-25-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/worlds-first-sms-text-message-sent-25-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s first SMS text message sent 25 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A man keys in a message onto a mobile phone in a Milan bar on March 3, 2006. The first SMS was sent in 1992 by a Vodaphone test engineer named Neil Papworth from his PC to a colleague at a party celebrating the event. (Daniele LA Monaca\/Reuters)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The man who sent the first ever text message 25 years ago has told British broadcaster Sky News that he is proud of his achievement.<\/p>\n

British engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS\u00a0(Short Message Service) from a computer to a mobile phone belonging to the then-director of Vodafone Richard Jarvis, he told Sky News.<\/p>\n

The message read simply: “Merry Christmas.”<\/p>\n

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Nokia’s GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phone was launched in 1992. (CBC)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Papworth said that Jarvis was unable to reply, because\u00a0at that time it was not possible to send text messages from mobile phones, only to receive them.<\/p>\n

According to Sky, in 2007 the U.K. was sending 66 billion text messages per year and by 2012 that had increased to 151 billion for SMS and MMS\u00a0(Multimedia Messaging Service).<\/p>\n

The U.K. currently sends 96 billion text messages every day, Sky reported.<\/p>\n

“Texting isn’t as popular as it once was,” said CBC’s Dominic Valitis, reporting from London. “The peak for messaging in the U.K. was 2012 … but we’ve seen a steady decline since then.”<\/p>\n

Some experts believe, however, that although text messages are an extremely quick and popular form of communication, they are no match for speaking with someone in person.<\/p>\n

“When you send someone a text message you often lose a lot of the context that you might get when you are speaking face to face,” social media expert Toby Beresford told Sky News.<\/p>\n

“And that’s a real challenge for us in the new era.”<\/p>\n

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