20 year anniversary of the text message, remember your first one?

donegal_road

just spotted that it is the 20th anniversary of the text message

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I remember the first time I ever got a text message it was in 1999, I was living in Crumlin, and I got a text from a friend who was at the KCR pub looking for a lift. I think a text cost 5p back then. A few of us spent the evening texting everyone we knew about this new discovery

martyeds

My first text was something like hsssstwh%29m..........reinv iefsj;flsssiuqn.
Took me ages to get the hang of the oul texting lark.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

1998 was mine. Probably something stupid like "Hi".

Now I have lengthened it to "Howdy", not bad for 14 years.

RichT

"Who the hell is this?"

Jack breen

I sent my first one about 1996, i had a Nokia 2110.

corktina

Mine was "Dad, can you get me some credit?"

AnonoBoy

Hlp plz am strnd n islnd nd rning out of crdt.

seamus

I think my first was texting a mate saying something like, "Hey, I got a phone, here's me number". Back in early 2000. He'd gotten a mobile for Xmas (though he didn't want one) but none of us had one, so I decided to get one a few weeks after.

SMS made the mobile, I reckon. They would eventually have become as ubiquitous as they are now, but without SMS I think a lot of people wouldn't have bothered getting a phone for quite a while. Even now I don't get many calls, my texts outnumber my calls by about 30 to one.

py2006

I remember when text messages were free!! They didn't predict how popular they would become. Eventually they started charging, but for some reason those of us who had 088 numbers continued to have free texts while 087 people had to pay. Until they eventually figured out how to charge. Good days!

snowgal

I remember getting my first text message. This thing just seemed to appear on my screen saying Meath are the Champions, Trevor Giles is King! I honestly thought my phone was a genius that it knew I was a Meah fan and a Trevor Giles fan, I was freaked for about a week! Then my brother asked me did I get his text message, so disappointed....

Lumbo

First text I ever received was "it's you're".

Grammer Nazi :rolleyes:

minidazzler

Lumbo wrote: »

First text I ever received was "it's you're".

Grammer Nazi :rolleyes:

But you never forgot that lesson, so you have no excuse for fcuking it up.

davet82

I am in a meeting, please call me back at

certifiedcrepe

I don't remember exactly, but I do remember that it had no spaces at all as I had not realised there was a space key. In my defence I was on,y about 6 or 7 on my mothers phone.

Duggy747

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7b8b3501D8

kincsem

Never got one. Don't have a phone. Have I missed anythng?

Tea_Bag

I dont remember my first texts, but i do remember changing my message centre number to vodafone kenya or something to get free texts. every time they closed the hole we'd find a new one.

Immaculate Pasta

donegal_road wrote: »

I remember the first time I ever got a text message it was in 1999, I was living in Crumlin, and I got a text from a friend who was at the KCR pub looking for a lift.

So did you pick your friend up from the pub or not?

Don't leave us hanging.

laugh

Got a mble fone its gr8 lol. kbi.

Chuck Stone

'I can see you but you can't see me'

Duggy747

I remember you could send reminders from the Nokia 3310s to other phones and the message wouldn't have a number to it so the person had no clue where it came from.

Twas great for sending death threats :pac:

Father Damo

seamus wrote: »

SMS made the mobile, I reckon. They would eventually have become as ubiquitous as they are now, but without SMS I think a lot of people wouldn't have bothered getting a phone for quite a while. Even now I don't get many calls, my texts outnumber my calls by about 30 to one.

I think the same about smartphones. Until one year ago they were merely the mark of the wanker/ poser or Apple fanboy loser- a bit like society judged mobiles until about 1999, if you had one you were either a businessman/ professional who needed one, or you were a wanker who thought you needed one. tbh if it was not for the existance of Facebook smartphones would have never taken off. Apart from checking FB and the news they really have no purpose.

Nowadays texts are so awkward to send on smartphones I reckon most people prefer calling.

recyclops

sent a message to a girl in school just class, cue flirting throughout the day then us going home for " lunch"

Only me and her had a mobile in the class and i only knew she got one as our mothers knew each other and they swapped the numbers so we had a nujmber in the phone.

thanks ma

seamus

Father Damo wrote: »

tbh if it was not for the existance of Facebook smartphones would have never taken off. Apart from checking FB and the news they really have no purpose.

Uh...surfing the web? Listening to music? Playing games?
That's primarily what I used mine for, FB and the news are incidental.

Nowadays texts are so awkward to send on smartphones I reckon most people prefer calling.

I disagree. With a full keyboard and free messaging, I would say smartphones have only added more fuel to the fire in respect of messaging. It's even quicker now to send a two-line text than ring someone. You'd have the text written and sent by the time the call connected.

Run_to_da_hills

First text message was on a Panasonic G600 in 1998 from a mate. Wasn't used to the phone menu and took me ages how to figure it out and reply to it.

Tea_Bag

Father Damo wrote: »

I think the same about smartphones. Until one year ago they were merely the mark of the wanker/ poser or Apple fanboy loser- a bit like society judged mobiles until about 1999, if you had one you were either a businessman/ professional who needed one, or you were a wanker who thought you needed one. tbh if it was not for the existance of Facebook smartphones would have never taken off. Apart from checking FB and the news they really have no purpose.

Nowadays texts are so awkward to send on smartphones I reckon most people prefer calling.

you obviously dont own a smartphone.

Where To

Aye no bother.



I'm a man of few words.

Father Damo

seamus wrote: »

Uh...surfing the web? Listening to music? Playing games?
.

With the battery life on the vast majority of them, hardly.

Tea_Bag- of course I own one. And apart from checking FB, or checking the news (particularly the football results in work, as Im in Australia) really they have little else going for them.

Father Damo

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

First text message was on a Panasonic G600 in 1998 from a mate. Wasn't used to the phone menu and took me ages how to figure it out and reply to it.

YOU use mobiles?

Really?

Despite the tracking capability?

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banned.

GAAman

donegal_road wrote: »

just spotted that it is the 20th anniversary of the text message

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I remember the first time I ever got a text message it was in 1999, I was living in Crumlin, and I got a text from a friend who was at the KCR pub looking for a lift. I think a text cost 5p back then. A few of us spent the evening texting everyone we knew about this new discovery

Same here, even to the point of Crumlin The first one I got said "Test"

Remember when you could change the message centre settings to get free text messages, thems were the days!

AnonoBoy

Duggy747 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7b8b3501D8

"Hey I saw Run Lola Run, let's make an ad that's a pale imitation."
- "Ok - what'll the ad be for?"
"Who cares? Whoever comes through the door next is getting my Run Lola Run ad."
- "Cool. Let's order Chinese, do some cocaine and high-five each other!"

bodhrandude

My first text was to my mate, "Snorkel jacket jumpers from outer space."

candy-gal1

2001, got my first phone for my 14th birthday from my dad, a motorola
Cant remember my first text message tbh, it was probably a test one to my dad or mam to see if it worked okay etc or else a message saying welcome or youve just topped up or something :pac:

5starpool

Father Damo wrote: »

With the battery life on the vast majority of them, hardly.

Tea_Bag- of course I own one. And apart from checking FB, or checking the news (particularly the football results in work, as Im in Australia) really they have little else going for them.

What a silly post. You might as well say the internet has no purpose other than facebook and the odd bit of news checking.

I have no facebook account and use the internet on my phone loads, too much probably.

Riesen_Meal

py2006 wrote: »

I remember when text messages were free!! They didn't predict how popular they would become. Eventually they started charging, but for some reason those of us who had 088 numbers continued to have free texts while 087 people had to pay. Until they eventually figured out how to charge. Good days!

Yup, infact, it was the same at the start of "GSM" also, the 087 Texts were free for a good while through Vodafone (or Eircell as it was known)

I remember the first one I sent, off my 088 Motorola brick (that also took 4AA batteries if you had no charger) I was 17, to my then girlfriend of the time that I would meet her after work, sure she never got it as she didn't know how to open it until I showed her.....

Good times.....

I remember a couple of months later moving over to GSM on my phillips Diga phone..... :pac:

What a phone :

http://www.welcome2net.com/mobile/data/media/41/Philips_Diga-l.jpg

Kenno90

How do you lot remember your first text message. I can't even remember my last message let alone my first

Sunnyisland

I don't remember my first text,my first mobile was an 088 motorola brick, (1992)I do remembering that i thought it was very lazy and rude to just send notes to each other... how things have changed, B4N.

KKkitty

My first text was to my brother who was in Australia at the time. It was sent off another brother's Phillips savvy phone and I think it was in 1998.

Maximus Alexander

Father Damo wrote: »

With the battery life on the vast majority of them, hardly.

Tea_Bag- of course I own one. And apart from checking FB, or checking the news (particularly the football results in work, as Im in Australia) really they have little else going for them.

LOL.

Would take me all night to list the things I use my smart phone for.

Mammanabammana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvbujX4hXOg

Jacks Smirking Revenge

Accidentally sent someone "Mammo" Don't even know what I was trying to send... Damn predictive text.

Trigger

I remember the Motorolla 088 phones alright but did they have texts on them, i was sure that texts came to later models like the Phillips, i used to get a new phone every 3/4 months as my brother used to work in the shop and he used to get me all the latest models, i remember one of the phones had a 2 line screen on it and the text used to scroll across it. it was either a Phillips or an alcatel.

The First text i recieved was from my mam telling me to get home for dinner, i didnt recieve it for hours as the phone was left underneath the jumpers for goalpost

FanadMan

My first phone was a Panasonic GDsomething Had terrible battery life - if you lost coverage....like you'd do all the time here, the battery would drain so quickly. My first text was to my brother in London........"Guess what I got" lol. Still have the phone somewhere but couldn't be bothered looking for it at this time of night

starviewadams

First text I received was in February 2000,I was in 6th class and had 'borrowed' my older brothers fancy new Ericsson GA628 phone to show off in school and pretend it was mine.My best friend at the time came from a dodgy criminal family,thus he had a mobile of his own,so we SMS messaged insults back and forth to each other in class.The auld teacher thought the message tones were coming from a gameboy.

We also did lots of prank calls to the pirate radio station that played Maniac 2000 over and over again,at yard time.

spunkymunky

Dont remember my first text message but i remember the first picture message I received (now theres something that never took off!!).
A mate sent me a picture of a dump he had!!

Lawrence1895

Something like 'I got home safe', after a football match in 1999, sent to my then GF

TURRICAN

My first message was
Hey if you get this message text me back ok.