First text message sender Neil Papworth celebrates 25th SMS anniversary

"Spelt with the full words - not Xmas," says Neil Papworth, the British engineer who sent it, eschewing the abbreviations that would define the medium.Handsets could only receive messages, not send them, so Mr Papworth typed out the season's greetings on a computer."I don't know if they really thought it was going to be a big thing," Mr Papworth says.