The first SMS in the history of the auction!

According to Fars News Agency, quoting Euronews, The Agutte auction house in Paris auctioned the first text message in history with an irrevocable digital password.

The first text message, “Merry Christmas”, sold for € 107,000 ($ 121,000) on Tuesday as an “irrevocable digital code” at an auction house in Paris.

On December 3, 1992, Neil Papworth, a member of the engineering team that focused on the development of text messaging (SMS) technology in the 1990s, received a “Merry Christmas” text message from his computer to a Vodafone operator. Posted in UK. He received the text message while attending a year-end party in New York. Thus, the first date SMS was registered.

Announcing the auction of this historic text message, Maximilia Agout, auction manager of Agoutes in Paris, explained that due to the ban on the sale of intangible goods in France, the frame containing this text message was put up for sale, but the winner of this auction along with the irrevocable digital password (Anafati) will receive it.

The value of the irrevocable digital password of this text message is estimated between 100 and 200 thousand Euros and its seller is the Vodafone operator. Proceeds from the SMS auction will be donated to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

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