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12-04-2012, 09:40 PM #1
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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Yesterday December 3, 2012 was the 20th aniversery of the first text message sent from a computer to a cell phone using Vodafone's UK network. just quirky fact
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12-04-2012, 09:44 PM #2
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I saw this on the Sky News website yesterday, the fist ever test message was 'Merry Christmas' :p

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12-04-2012, 10:03 PM #3
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I didnt know cell phones in the 80s were capable of receiving a text.

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12-04-2012, 10:21 PM #4
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I learned something on NGU instead of school. Wow
12-05-2012, 09:58 PM #5
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Originally posted by 96 View Post
I didnt know cell phones in the 80s were capable of receiving a text.


Strong math skills. 20 years ago was 1992.

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12-05-2012, 10:13 PM #6
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It was made by a British engineer too. :p
Nokia did the first text we know and love today.
12-05-2012, 11:04 PM #7
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Yes I did know this.
12-07-2012, 04:42 AM #8
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Thanks bro.
12-07-2012, 08:00 AM #9
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Wouldn't be surprised actually. Cellular phones were starting to make a boom in the market place in the early to late 90s :p

Definitely would be pretty cool to go around and say "I sent the first text message twenty years ago"

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