Software architect Designer, developer, & test engineer
Years active
1988-present
Known for
Sending the world’s first text message
Spouse
Jennifer Papworth (2007-present)
Children
3
Website
neilpapworth.com
Neil Papworth (born 1969) is a British software architect, designer and developer. He is known as the sender of the first ever text message (also known as SMS message) in 1992.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
^"Hppy bthdy txt!". BBC. 3 December 2002. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
^"Vodafone marks the 20th Anniversary of the world's first SMS". Malta Independent. 3 December 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
^Rashmee Ahmed (December 4, 2002). "UK hails 10th birthday of SMS". Times of India. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
^Roberto Rocha (December 8, 2007). "OMG! Txt msgs r 15 yrs old :)". Montreal Gazette. Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
^Ingri Peritz (November 30, 2012). "He sent the first text message 20 years ago, and forever changed the world". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
^Tracy McVeigh (1 December 2012). "Text messaging turns 20". The Guardian. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
^Paul Irish (December 3, 2012). "Text messaging turns 20 today". The Star. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
NeilPapworth (born 1969) is a British software architect, designer and developer. He is known as the sender of the first ever text message (also known...
standards. The first SMS message was sent on 3 December 1992, when NeilPapworth, a test engineer for Sema Group, sent "Merry Christmas" to the Orbitel...
by Nordic Mobile Telephone 1991 – GSM is put into operation 1992 – NeilPapworth sends the first SMS (or text message), on the Vodafone network. 2014...
December 1992, at the Three Tuns Public House in Reading, Berkshire, when NeilPapworth, a 22-year-old test engineer for Sema Group in the UK (now Airwide Solutions)...
logged in 2020. The texting phenomenon began on December 3, 1992, when NeilPapworth sent the first text message of "Merry Christmas" over a commercial cell...
text/SMS message ("Merry Christmas") sent over the Vodafone GSM network by NeilPapworth (born 1969). 2016: Holographic TV device created by the BBC. 1822: The...
Monarch, enabling London-Paris calls from April 1891. On 3 December 1992, NeilPapworth of Reading, an engineer from Sema Group Telecoms at Vodafone in Newbury...
Networks. Airwide later acquired Finnish company First Hop in 2007. NeilPapworth, a test engineer at Sema at the time, sent the world's first SMS message...
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kilometres (4.47 mi) while keeping the ball off the ground. In 2020, Imogen Papworth-Heidel set herself the goal of achieving 7.1 million touches, one for every...
(You Look Like Jim Reeves)" "Reflections in a Flat" "I Left My Heart in Papworth General" "Architecture and Morality Ted and Alice" "Albert Hammond Bootleg"...
Crowning Glory (K. Papworth) Place Omadia (M. Plessas) Days Work (M. McNought) Sir Thomas Mortimer's Almand (G. Walters) Oxon Song 1-3 (Neil Innes) Funk Roll...
Environmental News. 27 January 2021. Retrieved 27 January 2021. Archer, Lucy J.; Papworth, Sarah K.; Apale, Charity M.; Corona, Darlyn B.; Gacilos, Josefa T.; Amada...
12 January 2016. "Must Farm". Mustfarm.com. Retrieved 14 February 2019. Papworth, Andrew (20 August 2010). "Could this be Whittlesey's earliest known resident...
between Randle and Pottle's friends' houses, including that of Rev. John Papworth in Earls Court. Subsequently, Blake and Bourke moved in with Pottle, staying...
blues" bands like the White Stripes, a sentiment also shared by music critic Neil McCormick. Throughout the album there are "different moods and changes."...
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markets in the West Country. He was a friend of the peace activist John Papworth, whom he had met when both were in prison following an anti-war demonstration...
as Det Sgt Edgar Wield, Pip Donaghy as Det Sgt Cross, Michael Coles as Papworth, Susannah Wise as Louise Fielding, Daniel Ryan as Bertie Fielding, Glenn...
Wayne Marshall Australia Hooker 1988, 1990–1994 58 12 – – 48 830 Brett Papworth Australia Fullback 1988, 1990–1991 7 – 6 – 12 831 Jason Williams New Zealand...
science centres, Cambridge University Health Partners, formed with Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation...
Graham Colclough as Doctor Curtis in "On Beulah Height" Michael Coles as Papworth in "An Autumn Shroud" Abbie Collins as Georgina Webster in "Cunning Old...
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