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The joy of txts – everything you ever needed to know about SMS messages
Merry Christmas" and was sent to Vodafone’s director Richard Jarvis in December 1992 after he helped develop the short message service (SMS).Now a virtual replica is going under the hammer via cryptocurrency.Jarvis might have been sent the first text message, but he couldn’t reply. Engineer Neil Papworth typed it on a computer and sent it, but mobile phones didn’t have the ability to input text.Text messages originally had a 160-character limit so early adopters invented "txt spk", such as LOL (laughing out loud) and emoticons – symbols made from keyboard characters to show emotions.