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On December 3, 1992, a 22-year-old British software engineer named Neil Papworth sat at a desktop computer in his office and sent the first text message ever transmitted — two words long, reading simply "Merry Christmas" — to a Vodafone executive at an office party across town, who couldn't reply because mobile phones at the time had no way to send texts back
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