When did text messaging first become available on cell phones?

Question by MacBuckeye: When did text messaging first become available on cell phones?
When did text messaging first become available on cell phones? Can't find this anywhere. It would greatly help me. Thanks!


Best answer:

Answer by Megan
Well the first cell phone came out in July 1973, but the first with texting was a simple Motorola beeper in 1989.

But the first SMS message was claimed to be sent by Riku Pihkonen, an engineer student at Nokia, in 1993.

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