SMS (Short Message Service) will celebrate 25th anniversary

by400ad

Sending messages on smartphones is now an uncommon scene, but 25 years have passed since a message using SMS (Short Message Service) was sent for the first time as a first step.

The SMS text message turns 25 today - TechSpot
https://www.techspot.com/news/72141-sms-text-message-turns-25-today.html


OMG happy bday! Txt msgs turn 25 2day :-) x
https://news.sky.com/story/first-text-message-sender-neil-papworth-celebrates-25th-sms-anniversary-11154491

The idea of ​​"incorporating text messaging into mobile terminals" was born in the early 1980s. The concept was invented in 1984 by German engineer Fleet Helm Hirebrent and French engineer Bernardo Gilbert. Matti McConnen who worked at Finnish telecommunications authorities in the part of establishing technology played a major role and is called "inventor of SMS".

On 3 December 1992, the first message was to develop SMS center for Vodafone in the seminar of IT companiesNeil PapworthMr. Richard Jarvis of Mr. Vodafone from the PC's mobile phone ·ORBITEL 901It was sent to. The message was "Merry Christmas,". Although the mobile phone was able to receive the message, it was not possible to reply because there was no way to enter letters.

Commercial SMS started in Finland in 1993. Nokia launched a terminal that can send messages for the first time.

byOpen Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine

The growth rate of SMS was very slow at first, 5 messages sent in 1995 a year, but in 2010 it grows to 6.1 trillion a year, an average of 193 thousand cases per minute did. Since Internet based apps such as WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, iMessege, etc. have appeared one after another, SMS has declined at the peak of 2012, but 20 billion messages are sent annually in 2015 as well.

Incidentally, the number of characters of the message is 140 for 8-bit (1 byte) characters and 70 for 16-bit (2 byte) characters. Twitter has inherited this restriction.