0h, interesting. i mean, it feels like we never had a time without it. do you remember those huge phones, like walkie talkie types? so text message, it s evolved, hasn t it? we ve got these web based messages, we ve got whatsapp, the likes of facebook messenger. it s really taken off. yes. so basically the sms system worked so that whatsapp and imessage could run and the popularity of itjust really drove innovation. people wanted instant messaging. and while texts are still used quite commonly, undeniably that new tech has taken over. so if we look at a bit of data, there are around 40 billion sms messages sent in 2021 in the uk, in 2012. and things like the national health service do still use the most. we ve all got those messages confirming appointments and things like that here in the uk. but actually if we look at this globally, on whatsapp, for example, last year 100 billion messages were sent worldwide.
Goodbye, SMS messages. Google is saying farewell to SMS messaging. The California-based search giant recently announced it would soon start rolling out a beta testing version of its messaging app to test secured group chats using rich communication services (RCS), per The Verge.
you ask yourself with a piece of music, i asked myself when i m doing 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. 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 - to develop the technology to transmit sms messages, and on december 3, 1992,
to develop the technology to transmit sms messages, and on december 3, 1992, neil papworth, who was part of this engineering team, seen from his computer the sms merry christmas to a vodafone manager in the united kingdom. now that piece of digital history has gone under the hammer. it was sold by vodafone for $120,600 in the form of a non fungible token, or nft. nfts are a type of digital asset that has surged in popularity this year, with nft artwork selling for millions of dollars. the buyer, whose identity was not disclosed, will receive the replica of the original communication protocol that transmitted the sms. vodafone says it plans to donate its proceeds from the sale to the united nations refugee agency. nina nanji, bbc news.
affected by 0micron. 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 - to develop the technology to transmit sms messages, and on december 3, 1992, neil papworth, who was part of this engineering team, seen from his computer the sms