I can't think of a better analogy, but messaging is near real time,
which makes it quite a bit different from dropping a letter in snail mail.
On 12/04/2017 09:08 AM, Sieghard Weitzel wrote:
Of course comparing a phone call to text messaging is like comparing a
face-to-face meeting with writing letters and sending them in the mail. You can
discuss in a 1 or 2 minute phone call what it would take 10 text messages to
accomplish.
Also, the same 25-year anniversary of texting was discussed in a CBC article.
Since this first text message was sent in England, they also gave some facts
about the usage of text messages in England. Here they say that the number of
text messages sent peaked in 2012 and has been steadily declining since then.
Of course that may be due to other services such as Facebook or Whats App where
many messages sent are also text.
It is, however, astonishing how far we have come in those 25 years, in 1992
almost nobody even had a cell phone let alone a digital camera, the internet as
such barely existed although email was well on its way. But who talked about
companies having websites, about a huge portion of shopping getting done
online, about connected devices or even self-driving cars.
Regards,
Sieghard
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OMG! Texting is 25 years old
The first SMS was sent on Dec. 3, 1992, but it would be a couple of years
before phones could do it.
December 3, 2017 4:20 PM PST
Texting turned 25 on Sunday, ICYMI.
The first text message was sent on Dec. 3, 1992, by British engineer Neil
Papworth to Richard Jarvis, an executive at British telecom Vodafone, who was
attending his company's holiday party in Newbury, England.
Typed out on a PC, it was sent to Jarvis's Orbitel 901, a mobile phone that
would take up most of your laptop backpack, and read: Merry Christmas. But
Jarvis didn't send a reply because there was no way to send a text from a phone
in those days.
Although Papworth is credited with sending the first text message, he's not the
so-called father of SMS. That honor (or blame) falls on Matti Makkonen, who
initially suggested the idea back in 1984 at a telecommunications conference.
But texting didn't take off over night. First it had to be incorporated into
the then-budding GSM standard. Makkonen feels the technology actually was
launched in 1994 when Nokia unveiled its 2010 mobile phone, the first device
that let people easily write messages.
Today, about 97 percent of smartphone owners use text messaging, according to
Pew Research, and along the way, a new set of sub-languages based on
abbreviations and keyboard-based imagery has evolved. More than 561 billion
text messages were sent worldwide in June 2014, about 18.7 billion texts sent
every day, according researcher TextRequest.
Texting has become so popular that most Americans would rather type it than say
it. US smartphone users are sending and receiving five times as many texts
compared with the number of phone calls each day, according to the
International Smartphone Mobility Report by mobile data tracking firm Infomate.
Isn't that GR8?
Original Article at:
https://www.cnet.com/news/omg-texting-is-25-years-old/#ftag=CAD-09-10aai5b
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