Text messaging is 19 years old. The first text message was sent on December 03, 1992 to Richard Jarvis from Neil Papworth, who sent the message using his personal computer. The text message read “Merry Christmas”.
Below is a timeline created by Tatango to help you understand how text messaging has evolved over the last 19 years.
Considering how much more advanced South Africa was with texting than the Americans were in 90s and early noughties it be awesome to see our stats in comparison…