It has been more than two decades when texting was introduced as another mode
of communication. Within this two decades, Philippines has been recognized as
texting capital of the world. In 2009, it was estimated that 1.39 billion
text messages sent came from the Philippines alone and keeps on increasing every year.
Message Exchange of Matthew and his Tita Sexy |
Before being the text capital of the world, did
you know how does text messaging or short message service (SMS) emerges? If not, here is a brief history on how SMS started:
1984 - The concept of SMS was developed by Friedhelm
Hillebrand who worked in Deutsche Telekom. He tried to type random sentences using a typewriter and counted every character including space, punctuation marks and numbers. Almost every
message counts 160 characters. This became the basis why only 160 characters
are allowed in every message.
1985 - Together with Bernard Ghillebaert this concept was developed and created a technical proposal for Groupe Special Mobile which further developed
by the GSM committee.
1992 - A test engineer for Sema Group, Neil Papworth
sent his first personal text message to Richard Jarvis via Vodafone. Since
phone handsets are not yet capable of sending SMS, Papworth uses a computer to
send his message. The first ever text message sent was "Merry
Christmas".
1993 - Nokia developed the first
handset that is supported to sent SMS messages. They are also the first to
release a full keyboard mobile phone in 1997 - the Nokia 9000i Communicator.
Nokia Communicator - First Full Keyboard Mobile Phone (Source: GSM Arena) |
Now, there are different lots
manufacturers creating different features on mobile phones. Aside from the
usual call and text capability, most mobile phones nowadays have the capacity
to browse the internet.
Aside from knowing the brief history
of text messages, do you know how messaging started? You can check it on https://simpletexting.com/history-of-messaging/.
It shows how messaging develops from using smoke signals to the use of instant
messaging and SMS or texting.
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