13 SMS facts to mark the 21st anniversary of the text message:
1. The first text was sent from an Orbitel 901. Contract engineer Neil Papworth wrote "Merry Christmas" to Vodafone colleague Richard Jarvis. It was December 3rd, 1992. Owing to technological restrictions, he had to use a PC to send the message. Jarvis was unable to reply.
2. Phones did not have the ability to compose SMS messages until Nokia introduced the feature to its range in 1993. Texts couldn't be sent between different ...
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