Every day brings a new story. And each day contributes to the art of story telling -- in prose and poetry, in music, on the stage, on the screen, and, of course, in books.
Today is the story of December 3rd.
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It is the 337th day of the year, leaving 28 days in 2021.
On this date in 1992, Neil Papworth sent the world's first text message, ushering in a world-changing method of communicating, and giving us the ability to tell short stories in tiny bites. Papworth sent his message on a computer, to the Vodafone cellphone of a friend and colleague, Richard Jarvis.
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| Nokia developed the first cellphones with a QWERTY keyboard |
By 1997, Nokia had developed and released the 9000 communicator, which contained a full keyboard. Two years later, texts could be exchanged over different networks. Today, people around the world exchange more than 23 billion text messages a day.
Oh, Papworth's original message? Merry Christmas. Jarvis was attending his company's Holiday party in Newbury, England.
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