In what year was the first SMS text message ever sent?
Answer1992
Engineer Neil Papworth sent the first SMS - 'Merry Christmas' - over the Vodafone network on December 3, 1992.
Source: Wikipedia, Text messaging (2024) en.wikipedia.org
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About how many text messages were sent worldwide in 2021?
Answer8.4 trillion
Global SMS volume reached an estimated 8.4 trillion messages in 2021, with 2 trillion of those sent within the United States alone.
Source: Wikipedia, Text messaging (2021) en.wikipedia.org
By the end of 2007, about what share of the world's mobile phone users were active SMS users?
Answer74%
An estimated 2.4 billion of the world's 3.3 billion mobile subscribers - about 74% - were actively texting by the end of 2007.
Source: Wikipedia, Text messaging (2007) en.wikipedia.org
In 2012, about what share of American teens sent 50 or more texts per day?
Answer50%
Half of American teens were sending at least 50 texts a day in 2012, reflecting how central texting had become to teen social life.
Source: Wikipedia, Text messaging (2012) en.wikipedia.org
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