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by **Mandrake** » Dec 4th, '12, 21:38

Tuesday 4th December marks 20 years since the very first text message was sent.

gr8 nws innit?

by **mr invisible** » Dec 4th, '12, 23:26

Mandrake wrote:Tuesday 4th December marks 20 years since the very first text message was sent.

gr8 nws innit?

Yeah, do remember having a phone the size of a house brick.. :lol:

by **Jordan C** » Dec 4th, '12, 23:28

one of my first!

by **Tomo** » Dec 5th, '12, 00:13

Jordan C wrote:one of my first!

I was given one of these in the mid 1990s while we were acceptance testing at Tate and Lyle, apparently so that I could keep in touch. The aerial was just a bit of plastic. It never worked.

by **Jordan C** » Dec 5th, '12, 12:07

Sounds about right, and the flip was flimsy on the early models, they chunked it up in later versions I seem to recall. My first mobile was bought in 1993. I sent my first text though in 1994 when I was at uni and we were on the 'One2oNE' network!

by **AA 14** » Dec 5th, '12, 15:31

Tuesday 4th December marks 20 years since the very first text message was sent

....and I still have not recieved it. Bloody T-mobile!

by **Craig Browning** » Dec 5th, '12, 16:05

. . . and so it marks the beginning of the end of proper language and communications. RIP :cry:

by **Aza** » Dec 5th, '12, 18:50

Lng liv txt spk!

TTYL

Mch luv

Az

by **mr invisible** » Dec 5th, '12, 19:15

Jordan C wrote:one of my first!

Great memories, Jordan... I had the same one lol.

by **Mandrake** » Dec 5th, '12, 23:27

Apparently that first message was sent by Neil Papwell, a 22-year-old British engineer who used his computer to send the message "Merry Christmas" to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone.

Hmm, only half a TXt really

!

by **Alec Burns** » Dec 6th, '12, 01:20

I had a brick on the Orange network. I remember holding it up into the too corner of my living room trying to get a signal.

by **Tomo** » Dec 6th, '12, 11:48

I wrote an article about the BBC's newly released Tomorrow's World archive a couple of years ago. In amongst it, I found this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY

It's Michael Rodd reporting on a marvellous new British invention called a mobile phone back in 1979. However, as he says, the Post Office (who owned the airwaves at the time) couldn't see the point of supporting a private development and we lost a huge global lead. Well done us! :roll:

by **Lady of Mystery** » Dec 6th, '12, 11:57

Alec Burns wrote:I had a brick on the Orange network. I remember holding it up into the too corner of my living room trying to get a signal.

You're lucky you managed to get a signal in the living room. I remember buying my first Orange pay as you go in about 1998, got home all excited with my new toy only to find that I couldn't get a signal anywhere in the village.

by **Aza** » Dec 6th, '12, 12:07

Lady of Mystery wrote:
Alec Burns wrote:I had a brick on the Orange network. I remember holding it up into the too corner of my living room trying to get a signal.

You're lucky you managed to get a signal in the living room. I remember buying my first Orange pay as you go in about 1998, got home all excited with my new toy only to find that I couldn't get a signal anywhere in the village.

Resisting the urge to put Lady of Mystery into innuendo bingo! :lol: