Twenty years of text messages: We've reached Peak SMS

Expensive, trucated emails finally plateau

The first SMS text message was sent twenty years ago, when Neil Papworth sent a Merry Christmas to a mobile phone, an innovation which went almost unnoticed for the next half-decade.…

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