In what year was the first text message sent?
1,992. Neil Papworth typed it on a computer because no phone could compose texts yet—and no one could reply.
How close would your guess have been?
In the game we ask it like this: “'Merry Christmas'—the world's first text message—was sent in what year?”
Type a number — scored exactly the way a round in the game is.
The answer
1,992



