The world’s first text message was auctioned off for £90,000 ($121,000) yesterday. Sent in December 1992 and saying ‘Merry Christmas’, the text was sold by Vodafone. Engineer Neil Papworth sent the SMS from his computer to colleague Richard Jarvis, who received it on his Orbitel cordless telephone. World's first text message sent in 1992 sells for £90,000 https://t.co/BZkRwIF98B — Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) December 22, 2021 ‘They were in the ...