For many, the main means of communication through their mobile phone isn't actually speaking on the phone--it's texting. For all those who prefer tapping out a message on their touch screen to dialing a number and speaking, we hope you wished your texts a happy birthday yesterday, as the text message celebrated its 25th bithday.
According to CNET, the first text message was sent Dec. 3, 1992, when a British engineer named Neil Papworth sent "Merry Christmas" to Richard Jarvis, an executive at Vodafone.
The text was typed on a PC and sent to a mobile phone--but Jarvis couldn't reply to the message, as, at the time, there was no way to send a text from a phone. My how times have changed. Today, billions upon billions of texts are sent each day.
Here's to hoping the text message manages to avoid that quarter-life crisis that plagued so many of us in our mid-20s.