The text message celebrates its 25th birthday today

The very first text message was sent on this date 25 years ago. On December 3rd, 1992, an engineer by the name of Neil Papworth sent the words "merry Christmas" from his PC to a cellphone owned by Vodafone director Richard Jarvis. And from that humble beginnings, a quarter of a century later, we are now living in a world where billions of messages are texted each month.

Before smartphones became a must own piece of hardware, the majority of mobile phone users were sporting feature phones that required tapping the dialer multiple times just to produce a letter on the screen. This so called ...