Vodafone is selling the first ever text message for charity

The first ever SMS was sent over the Vodafone network 19 years ago and soon one lucky collector will own it.
On 3 December 1992 a 22-year-old software developer working for Vodafone UK sent a text message saying “Merry Christmas” to colleague Richard Jarvis. Prior to that he would have had to call him and say those words, which would have been a massive hassle. Within a year Nokia had installed the technology on its phones and the world hasn’t looked back, such that now people