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As reported by Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging) Text Messaging on mobile phones first startedback in 1992 with a message being sent from a computer to a mobile phone, and then in 1993 direct from phone to phone. Texting on mobile phones is also refferred to as sms, text, message and messaging.
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∙ 13y agoSMS was first used in December 1992, when Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group (now Airwide Solutions), used a personal computer to send the text message "Merry Christmas" via the Vodafone network to the phone of Richard Jarvis.
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∙ 11y agoThe first SMS message - "Merry Christmas" was sent in 1992 from a PC to a mobile phone. Mobile to mobile SMS were first offered in Finland in 1993, when Nokia offered the first phone capable of sending SMS.
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∙ 15y agoThe first SMS message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from Neil Papworth of Sema Group
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Who sent the first text message on a cell phone?
The first text message was sent by Neil Papworth in 1992.
Who is neil papworth?
Neil Papworth is known as the man who sent the very first text message. He sent the text message in 1992.
Who sent the first text message?
Merry christmas
Sms was disabled with AT and T but I sent a message to someone by accident will it show up on my bill as one text message?
Regardless of how or why you sent a text message, once it is sent from your phone it is billed as a sent text message.
What is the first text message sent on a cell phone?
high mom
What is a sentence for text message?
He sent her a text message to apologise.I had a text message from an unknown number.
The first text message ever sent by Neil Papworth?
merry Christmas
What does it mean when sending a text message it says networking is not working message saved in sent?
It means that your text message can not be sent and is saved in your drafts folder or in your case your sent folder.
How to retract a sent text message?
Sending a text message and then trying to retract it is impossible
What year did cell phone text messaging start?
The year was 1990's when the first text message was ever sent out.
What is the history of texting?
The first text message was sent in 1989 to a Motorola beeper. This message used upside-down numbers that could be read as letters.The first SMS message (the most common text messaging technology in use today) was sent in 1992 using a personal computer keyboard. The first SMS message using a phone was sent in 1993.
What was the first text message sent to a cell phone?
The first text message was sent by Raina Fortini in 1989.
