It’s now 20 years since the first Short Message Service by Neil Papworth on December 3, 1992 to a mobile phone.
The innovation went almost unnoticed for the next half-decade, theregister.co.uk reports.
The website reports that the SMS took a while to take hold, longer
still before network operators realised what a cash cow SMS could be,
and longer again before they noticed SMS was proving to be one of the
most disruptive technologies ever to hit telecommunications and one
whose implications they would live to regret.
