In celebrating the 19th year of SMS messaging or text messaging, Tatango created a gorgeous timeline infographic that illustrates the impressive growth of sms messaging over the last 19 years.
December 3rd of 1992 when the first ever text message was sent from a man named Neil Papworth to his colleague Richard Jarvis that simply says “Merry Christmas”. Through that day on, SMS messaging became of one of the very “all-pervasive” kind of interaction/communication in the world – and also a very powerful advertising tool at the same time.
The idea wasn’t just an overnight achievement. Nevertheless, people in the USA had been sending about 35 text messages monthly in 2000. Came 2011, where Americans are currently sending 357 texts per month on average while garnering $585B for operators worldwide!
