The modest father of SMS, who had much to be modest about

Only the true inventor would deny his invention? Erm, well, not quite

Matti Makkonen died last week and was celebrated as the father of SMS. He’s been described as being too modest to acknowledge his involvement. It seems, however, that the story of how Short Messaging came to be is far more complicated than we originally thought, and the system has many fathers.…

via The Register - Networks
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