Finnish engineer Matti Makkonen famously dreamed up the idea for the
SMS (Short Message Service) in a Copenhagen pizza shop in 1984, and the first message ("Happy Christmas") was sent to a Vodafone UK cellphone from a PC on December 3, 1992. Since then, an estimated 8 trillion texts have been sent, and now the normally recalcitrant pioneer has given the
BBC a rare interview (appropriately via text message), where he discussed "txtspk,' keypads vs. touchscreens, and the next big tech development.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/03/t...atti-makkinen/
Oddly enough, the world's first smartphone was released 5 days before the text message. The smartphone turned 20 5 days ago.