Technology
What year was the first text message sent?
1992
Background
The first text message was sent on December 3, 1992 in the United Kingdom. The message simply said Merry Christmas. An engineer sent it from a computer to a mobile phone. Phones back then did not yet have keyboards for typing messages. Today over 20 billion texts and chat messages are sent each day.
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