Reading 'Merry Christmas,' the message was sent from a computer on December 3, 1992. 9News
The world's first SMS has been sold as a non-fungible token for $207,584 at an auction in Paris, according to the auctioneer Aguttes.
The unknown buyer, who was to pay in the cryptocurrency Ether, will also receive a digital frame with a 3D animation of the message being received.Mr Papworth and his colleagues were trying to develop a type of communication whereby their client, Vodafone, could offer users the ability to send messages to each other's phones, Aguttes explainedThey eventually refined the code, and the transmission of texts via Vodafone's network became a reality.
Initially, texts could not be sent from cellphones because they did not have keyboards. However, by 1994, they were able to be transmitted from phones thanks to the arrival of the Nokia 210. The 160-character limit of SMS - which stands for "Short Message Service" - has since been incorporated across digital platforms including Twitter.
Each NFT is one-of-a-kind, meaning that no two tokens are the same. Since March, when the first NFT artwork was sold for $96,153,984 during an online auction by Christie's, virtual art has broken into the mainstream.
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