How long have you not texted? Recently, the world's first text message will be auctioned off the news on the hot search.
According to the British media "Mirror", the world's first text message will be sold for as much as 170,000 pounds (about 1.43 million yuan) nearly 30 years after its birth, making history again.
The text message was sent in 1992 and has only 15 letters: MERRY CHRISTMAS (Merry Christmas).
The sender was Papworth, a software engineer at Vodafone, a British telecommunications provider, who sent a "Merry Christmas" text message to the company's top management at a Vodafone Christmas party. Since the mobile phone did not have a text messaging function at that time, he used a computer to send this text message.
Image source: Screenshot of the Mirror report
However, the success of the first SMS does not mean that this feature is widely used. Due to the hardware and network limitations at that time (sending SMS needed to be based on the GSM network, and in 1992 the GSM network was not yet fully mature), the real popularity of SMS to commercial and civilian was a few years later.
Currently, vodafone uk, the "owner" of the message, said it would auction a virtual copy of the message globally, and the successful bidder would receive a digital file containing information from the sender and recipient, including their phone number and the message itself, and would have exclusive rights to the file.
It is reported that the auction will be held in Paris on December 21, and the proceeds will be donated to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Hannes Ametsreiter, Vodafone's CHIEF Executive Officer, said: "We will always remember the world's first text message and put it at auction as a way to connect the innovations of the two eras. ”
Ameslet believes that the birth of this text message is of great significance to accelerate the popularity of text messages.
About 30 years ago, the world's first message was a defining moment in the history of technology.
In 1999, seven years after the first text messages were sent through Vodafone, people could finally send text messages over multiple networks, accelerating the use and popularity of text messages.
Today, when the social software dominates the screen, this message has also triggered the archaeology and nostalgia of netizens, and some people have begun to miss the first text message they received:
"It's been 17 years since I received the first text message from a friend of mine who is a Milwaukee Brewers fan."
Others joke that the most text messages they send are "TD"
For the practice of high-priced auction SMS, many netizens also expressed "no understanding"
What you send and receive in your life
When was the first text message?
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Edited | Cheng Peng du Hengfeng
Proofreader | Sun Zhicheng
This article is reprinted from China Daily
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