It was sent by Neil Papworth of Sema Group now Mavenir Systems using a personal computer to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone using an Orbitel 901 handset.

What is the first text message sent. Be prepared to feel ancient -- the first text message is 25 years old. Richard Jarvis received the message on a Husky Orbitel 901 cell phone. 1992 First text message sent.

1995 T9 system invented making texting quicker. It can be tricky to make the transition from talking in a bar to sending messages while still keeping whatever connection you may have had alive long enough to get to that first dateinline. The message was a simple one Merry Christmas and it was sent to Richard Jarvis a director at Vodafone.

3 December 1992. The worlds first text message is sent Twenty two years ago a developer working in Newbury Berkshire sent a two-word text message marking the start of a whole new way of. In 1992 Neil Papworth a 22-year-old software programmer from the UK sent the first ever text message from a computer to his colleague Richard Jarvis.

If youre sending 300 messages but only getting 10 responses thats a red flag and can result in your messages. Despite the truly multinational story behind the SMS the first SMS message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992. Neil had been working as a developer and test engineer to create a Short Message Service SMS for his client Vodafone.

The recipient was Richard Jarvis who was attending a Christmas party near Vodafone headquarters in Newbury England. The first text message Papworth a former developer at Sema Group Telecoms sends the worlds first SMS greeting to his friend Richard Jarvis who at the time worked at UK. The first text message was transmitted Dec.

Engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS on December 3rd 1992 when he wrote merry Christmas on a computer and sent. Most people are unaware that texting has been around for a long time. There are guidelines around how many messages you can send depending on the number youre using.