I think we all agree that sending an SMS has many great advantages. It?s discreet, cheaper than a call, it takes less time and it can be sent and received at any time. It?s a perfect way of communication! Numbers are here to prove that we?re obsessed with texting; in 2010, 6.1 trillion SMS were sent ? that?s 192 000 SMS per second!
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2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Short Message Service; we thus collected the important milestones of the surprising history of text messages, a communication tool no one predicted to become as important as it is nowadays!
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1984: A Finnish engineer named Matti Makkonnen first got the idea for the SMS concept when having lunch with two colleagues in a pizzeria located in Copenhagen, in the context of a conference about the future of mobile communications. His first idea was to develop a very simple messaging system that would work even when the recipient?s device was switched off or out of coverage area.
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1987: The GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) was created after 13 European countries signed an agreement to develop and deploy a common mobile telephone system across Europe ? a unified, open, standard-based mobile network. Makkonnen?s concept was discussed and adopted at a worldwide GSM conference. Unfortunately for him, he did not patent his invention (and hence did not receive a penny for it?)!
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December 1992: The first SMS ever was sent from a personal computer to a mobile phone on the Vodafone GSM network in the UK. It read ?Happy Christmas? 
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At that time, no one really paid attention to the potential of SMS. Operators didn?t even charge for them! In 1995, a US citizen used to send on average 0.4 text messages per month?
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1996: Pay-as-you-go sim cards were introduced. Before that date, cellphones could only be purchased under contract, thus only by people above 18 years old but, suddenly, teenagers could also acquire mobile phones! This obviously played a major role in the increase of popularity of SMS.
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1999: Text messages could finally be sent between different operators! This was a huge step in the increase of SMS traffic.
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2008: Finally, 24 years after his idea, Makkonen got the The Economist magazine?s Innovation Award!
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March 2011: The first SMS via yuilop was sent! yuilop opened a whole new area of free text communication before expanding to free voice communication!
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2012: Two thirds of the world?s population has access to SMS (over 4 billion people), making text messaging way bigger and important than Facebook? Not bad for a 20 year old low tech tool! You can reach those 4 billion people for free! Join yuilop now!
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Funny fact about the SMS: In 2005, Sonja Kristiansen from Norway became the fastest text message typer; she broke the record by typing a 160 characters sentence in 37.28 seconds. The exact sentence she had to type was: ?The razor-toothed piranhas of the genera Serrasalmus and Pygocentrus are the most ferocious freshwater fish in the world. In reality, they seldom attack a human.? Let me guess, you want to try it too
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Sources:
http://www.mobilepronto.org/en-us/the-history-of-sms.html
http://www.smsfun.com.au/history_of_sms.php
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/cat_sms_a_little_history.htm
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Source: http://yuilop.com/intl/blog/history-of-text-messaging/
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