i do the painting. it is a very physical thing as well. i don't really see the difference, for me as an artist in making these things. they are very much the same. they may seem a little old—fashioned these days but when they first pinged onto our phones, text messages were the last word in cool. now the first text ever sent has been sold, for more than $120,000. it was auctioned in paris as a non—fungible token. nina nanji reports. text messaging, it's hard to imagine a world without it, but do you know when people first started texting each other? it was almost 30 years ago, in december1992. and that first message simply said, "merry christmas." translation: engineering teams were working in the 1990s -