'Merry Christmas': 30 years of the text message

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'Merry Christmas': 30 years of the text message
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In December 1992, the first SMS text message was sent to a mobile phone by an engineer in Berkshire.

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At its peak, phone users exchanged billions of SMS - or Short Message Service - messages every year, and in 2010 the word "texting" entered the dictionary. The service is still used by the NHS to send out appointment reminders, and by some firms as a form of log-in authentication, where a number sequence is sent which has to be entered into its website.Originally, an SMS could only be text, up to 160 characters long. The concept was born in the early 1980s but it was almost 10 years before one would be sent to a mobile device.

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