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What was the world’s first text message?

Fact - World's first text message was sent on December 3, 1992 and said "Merry Christmas"
Pic Credits: © 2009 A guy called John | It's Christmas! | CC BY-SA | Modified

The world’s first text message was sent over Vodaphone network on the 3rd of December 1992. It was dispatched by a test engineer, Neil Papworth, to the phone of Richard Jarvis, a director at Vodafone, and read “Merry Christmas”.

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