Texting Turns Twenty Two

Be it for better or worse, this week we celebrate texting turning the ripe old age of 22. No one knew at the time just how big the phenomenon would get, overtaking email as the preferred mode of messaging. The first ever text? Merry Christmas.

Twenty-two years and quadrillions of text messages later, SMS is the king of electronic communications. It makes tens of billions of dollars for network providers and connects billions of people around the world. Annual text traffic is expected to reach 9.4 trillion by 2016.

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