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The world’s first text message was yesterday auctioned off for £90,000.
Sent in December 1992 and saying ‘Merry Christmas’, the text was sold by Vodafone.
Engineer Neil Papworth sent the SMS from his computer to colleague Richard Jarvis, who received it on his Orbitel cordless telephone.
The world's first text message was sent in December 1992 by engineer Neil Papworth from his computer to colleague Richard Jarvis and simply said 'Merry Christmas'.
‘They were in the middle of end-of-year events so he sent him the message “Merry Christmas”,’ said Maximilien Aguttes of the Aguttes auction house in Paris.
A year later Nokia introduced the SMS system on its handset.
The text was sold as a non-fungible token – a type of digital asset.
Each NFT is unique and can include images, video and text.
On December 3, 1992, 22-year-old British programmer Neil Papworth (pictured) sent the first ever Short Message
