Dec. 3 marks the 25th birthday of SMS, or more popularly known as text messages, which helped shape mobile phone technology and communication standards. While text messages have been a staple in ...

NEW YORK (TheStreet) - "It was twenty years ago today" (borrowing from a legendary song lyric) that Neil Papworth taught the world to SMS. On this date in 1992, the young British telephone engineer ...

Today is a special day. It marks the birth of one the most popular forms of mobile communication: the SMS text message. On December 3rd, 1992, the world’s first text message was sent. Fittingly, given ...

Texting turns 20 as usage declines. Dec.3, 2012 — -- It was 20 years ago today that the first text message was sent. It was Dec. 3, 1992, and Neil Papworth, an engineer working in the UK, sent ...