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The concept of text messaging was developed in 1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. -
The first text was sent, and texting successfully was created.
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Nokia saw potential in texting and began to produce phone that used it. -
Introduction of cross network texting made it possible to message users on different carriers.
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Young people started to use texting more than ever, and it started to gain lots of popularity
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Americans starting to use texting more than calling -
MMS was created and introduced to the public.
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RCS was created and used lots of new concepts such as read receipt's.