Happy Birthday SMS

SMS - the 'short message service' that's become better known as simply 'texting' - was 15 years old this week. The world's first text message was sent on 3rd December 1992 by Neil Papworth, an engineer at Airwide Solutions, to Richard Jarvis at Vodafone. The message read "Happy Christmas". [Sources: Airwide Solutions press release, 160characters.org]