It The first SMS in history was sent on this day 30 years ago. It’s possible in the UK, thanks to the Vodafone network and its very concise text message, a “Merry Christmas” spoken to Richard Jarvis. The person who sent it was Neil Papworth and he was using Ray’s personal computer.

SMS is not off (nor will it be off)

The boom in this communications format came in the late 90’s, and the boom has maintained for a good season. We used SMS to communicate anything, back then it’s cheaper to text than to call. Later, enriched messages arrived, with which pictures could be sent, these were MMS. Text messages have many possibilities, we can even use them to download ringtones or access special services, they are quite expensive. By the way, some are afraid of the bill because they don’t know the special premium SMS rates, but that has happened in history.

The presence of smartphones and messaging applications, WhatsApp or Telegram, little by little cornered SMS, but never died. Nowadays, This communication system is used to receive messages from banks or authorized bodies. Via SMS we receive numeric authentication keys for our electronic banking and other types of services. And sadly used by cyber criminals to try to trick us.

You may no longer use an SMS sending service as before, and you may not even be able to remember the last time you used it to communicate with someone. But it is very common to find SMS in our inbox, which provides evidence of his good health. Time flies and for a technology to last 30 years it’s a good idea about solidity. It seems we’ve forgotten what he gave us before and those 160 characters, which even comes down to developing a new kind of shorthand language to communicate maximum information in the smallest possible space.

either way, SMS refuses to die and perhaps no amount of technology can remove it from circulation. That December 13, 1992, the manufacturer may not have been aware of the steps taken, despite the fact that the technology had been developed in 1985 by an engineer from the Nokia company.