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

bodhrandude · 03-12-2012 04:23PM

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

candy-gal1 · 03-12-2012 04:30PM

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 · 03-12-2012 04:34PM

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.

03-12-2012 04:49PM

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 · 03-12-2012 04:51PM

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

Sunnyisland · 03-12-2012 04:54PM

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 · 03-12-2012 05:00PM

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 · 03-12-2012 05:13PM

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 · 03-12-2012 05:40PM

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

Jacks Smirking Revenge · 03-12-2012 05:47PM

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

Trigger · 03-12-2012 06:02PM

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 · 04-12-2012 05:02AM

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 · 04-12-2012 05:22AM

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 · 04-12-2012 05:39AM

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 · 04-12-2012 05:34PM

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

TURRICAN · 04-12-2012 05:44PM

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

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

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