Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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On December 3, 1992, engineer Neil Papworth, working for Sema Group on Vodafone’s network, sent the world’s very first SMS. Using a computer, he delivered a simple holiday greeting - "Merry Christmas", to a colleague’s Orbitel 901 phone. That tiny moment marked the birth of text messaging, a technology that would reshape communication for billions of people worldwide.

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