The first commercial SMS message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in the United Kingdom on 3 December 1992, from Neil Papworth of Sema Group (using a personal computer) to Richard Jarvis of Vodafone (using an Orbitel 901 handset). The text of the message was "Merry Christmas". The first SMS typed on a GSM phone is claimed to have been sent by Riku Pihkonen, an engineer student at Nokia, in 1993.
And the world of dating was officially changed. That's right, I'm pegging the invention of text messaging as the climax of the decline of male assertiveness. Why call when you can text? Why stop by when you can comment on myspace? Why sit by her in class when you can poke her on facebook? Why propose on the beach when you can post a notice on LDS linkups? I'm just saying...it's way too easy to not do it right these days. And it all started with the text.
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