The world's first SMS message sent, has been auctioned by Vodafone and sold at a reasonable price. Exactly the price of this SMS is around 90 thousand pounds .
The SMS was sent in December 1992 or 29 years ago with the words Merry Christmas or Merry Christmas. The SMS was sent via computer by an engineer named Neil Papworth to his colleague, Richard Jarvis.
As quoted by us from the Daily Mail, Wednesday (22/12/2021) Richard Jarvis received an SMS regarding a phone device called Orbitel, which is similar to a desk phone but has no cable.
"They were holding an event at the end of the year so he sent the message with the sound of Merry Christmas," said Maximilen Agutess of the Aguttes auction house in Paris.
A year later, Nokia introduced an SMS messaging system on its phones. Then over time, SMS became one of the most popular methods of communication.
In this auction, the SMS is sold in the form of NFT or non -fungible tokens, a type of digital asset that has recently become popular in various countries. Each NFT is something unique and can be a photo, video or text.
The buyer, who did not want to be named, will receive a replica of the protocol that transmitted the SMS. Meanwhile, the proceeds of the sale will be given to the UN humanitarian agency, the United Nations Refugee Agency.
The sale of NFT is currently not legal in France. So to trick it, the auction house displays the first SMS in a digital frame, which displays the code and also the communication protocol.