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Vodafone is auctioning the world's first SMS as NFT

 


Vodafone is auctioning the world's first SMS as an NFT. Its content fits the time of year, and the proceeds will go to aid the United Nations for refugee aid.

The world's first SMS had just 15 characters - on December 3, 1992, engineer Neil Papworth sent it from a PC to the Orbitel TPU 901 mobile phone belonging to Vodafone employee Richard Jarvis. "Merry Christmas" - "Merry Christmas" was its content. Anyone who wants to put this piece of history - at least digitally - under the Christmas tree for themselves or for others is in luck this year.

Vodafone is auctioning NFT of the first SMS

Vodafone has announced that it will auction the world's first SMS as a non-fungible token (NFT) . "The exclusive one-off (1/1 edition) guarantees the possession of a unique, detailed replica of the original communication protocol of the first text message ever sent," explains the mobile operator.

The online auction will be held on December 21, 2021 by the French auction house Aguttes. Vodafone wants to donate the entire proceeds of the auction to the UNHCR, the UN's refugee aid. The money is intended to benefit the 82.4 million people worldwide who are forced to leave their homes due to conflicts or displacement.

The proceeds, according to Vodafone, can also be paid in the cryptocurrency Ether.

The SMS came before Whatsapp and Co

Even if the first SMS went through the Vodafone network as early as 1992, it would take another seven years for the text message to gain acceptance among the population. It was only when it became possible to send SMS across multiple networks in 1999 that the popularity of short messages skyrocketed - while, for example, around 11.4 billion SMS were sent in Germany in 2000, it was almost 22.3 billion in 2005 twice as many.

It was only with the advent of smartphones in the second half of the 2000s - especially the first iPhone in 2007 - that a trend reversal heralded. Messenger services such as iMessage and Whatsapp offered a more cost-effective alternative that also managed without character limits. Nowadays, for most people, SMS is probably most likely to play a role in the course of two-factor authentication.


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