Monday, December 5, 2011

Text messages 19 years

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Los mensajes de texto cumplen 19 años


A two days ago were met 19-year-first sending a text message. This first message was sent on 3 December 1992 over the Vodafone GSM network in United Kingdom. Neil Papworth who sent the message using a computer and Richard Jarvis was who received it in an Orbitel 901 (image above). The text of the message was as follows: "Merry Christmas" (Merry Christmas).


The technology behind the SMS is already 27 years old and it was developed in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert, but 8 years later was sent the first text message.


Since then the SMS has dominated the scene of mobile messaging. In 2010, text messages generated profits of $114 billion dollars worldwide, and it is expected that in the next five years generated more than $725 billion.

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