TECH

SMS is 25 years old. Congratulations to the kind of communication that changed the world.
SMS [Short Message Services]. The concept is so integrated into our daily lives that we have no notion of the relevance it has assumed in our lives. The SMS is to be congratulated and makes today, December 3, 2017, 25 years.It was on that same day in 1992 that Canadian engineer Neil Papworth sent a message from his computer to the cell phone of Richard Javis, executive of Vodafone."Merry Christmas," could be read in the short text.It was the first of a countless number of SMS's that are shipped around the world. Since then there have been many evolutions, the popularization of SMS, the creation of character limit, the inclusion of emojis, the arrival of abbreviations ...In 2012, according to data from Acision cited by La Vanguardia, 15 million SMS were sent per minute, which made this form of communication the "most popular" despite strong competition from emails and social networks.Despite this, this type of communication has been losing users with the massification of applications such as WhatsApp, where there is no space limit and where you can send audio messages and even make calls.Skype, Messenger, and Telegram have all contributed to this slowdown in popularity, though all of them are based on the idea of ​​SMS.

F. Méride