[Closed] Your first text message, tell us more?

Ah good times, good times. 😐

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I can't remember what I did last week, let alone remember my first text message 🙂

But, as a guess, it was probably "hello".

Not "Giggidy"?

No idea, but I do remember getting a phone call from my gf at the time and hearing her chatting to her mates because she tried to send me a text but I was on a different network and you could text between networks in 1998.

Not "Giggidy"?

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My first text was pre-Family Guy sadly!

First ?

Shit, that's a Looooong time ago.

But I'd hazard a gues at .... "don't be late, 4 offices have signed up, 42 displaced and redundancy settlements required by Tuesday, get John to sign it off"

It was a busy time...

You expect me to remember trivia like that from thirty-odd years ago?
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Mr. Watson--come here--I wan2 cu

20 years ago or so, sat in my best mates parent's lounge. I'm packing the Motorolla D160, my mate is reading the manual of his new Erickson something or other "you can send messages" which I assumed he meant voice mails but no... "check this out he said".....

15 mins of swearing at the keypad later....

Beep beep - "****er". Arrives on my phone.

We sat there a while and considered the huge array of technology that we brought to bear in order to send that message, then he showed me how you did it - you had to go into the settings, 3 or 4 sub menus to find "SMS Messages" then you had to enter the number as the phonebook didn't work for that, the do that press 7, 3 times to get a G or whatever and then send it.

"Never catch on" nah "stupid idea".

12 months later and no body called again ever.

You expect me to remember trivia like that from thirty-odd years ago?

I can't either but it wasn't 30 odd years ago that messaging became available.

Mine was probably "did this work"?"...

"Hi" 😆

"Come here Watson, I need you"

Mine will have been on a Nokia 3210. I have no idea what it will have said though. I can't even remember typing this

"test" then probably "boobies" once confirmed I had my mates number right

I can remember the first dozen or so!!

I got my phone first out of my mates but had no-one to text. One of the others got one a few weeks later and we spent the whole of the 'free' £5 credit we had sending as many rude words to each other 😀

Not quite text messaging but many years ago I took a temp job working in a paging call centre. The sender would ring in, say what they what you wanted to send and you would type it and repeat it back to them.

My first message taken:

If you was toast and I was butter I'd spread myself all over you.

That job didn't last long.

The only way sexting could be done back then

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Thanks houns... boss isn't in today 😆

I don't remember my first SMS, but I do remember the first month I had a Nokia phone on Vodafone contract and I was texting this nice lady who wasn't on Vodafone. First month's bill was £99! Lesson learnt.
I suspect the message was "Hi, Dez here. This is my new phone number!"
(Or it may have been something as saucy as CountZero's message up there ^^ 😕 )

Texts were only 160 chars back then, so you couldn't have sent Houn's message. Plus, typing that on a numeric key pad!

Oh! I thought that's how they sent photos back then and Houns was showing off.

Mine was from some bloke claiming to be on a planet in Ursa Minor. I deleted it - was that the right thing to do?

I can't either but it wasn't 30 odd years ago that messaging became available.

You're right. It was only 24 years ago.

Probably 17 years ago, one of the first I can remember, on a Trium Astral (hand down from my sister):

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Something about some Indie pop-rock teeny weeny band to a girl I liked call Andrena.

I was spending nearly a tenner a week texting back in my high school days, now I spend £15 a month on my SIM only deal......