The first text message in history was auctioned for €107,000

last tuesday was The first ever SMS-style text message was auctioned. This was sold in Paris at Digital code format at €107,000 Approximately the equivalent — the equivalent of 10,3047.074 Chilean pesos — according to Aguttes Sales.

This SMS was sent on December 3, 1992 Through the phone company Vodafone. It consisted of only characters. “Merry Christmas” (Happy birthday in English).

Telephone company employee Neil PapworthAnd Send SMS from his computer For a manager in the UK, his name was Richard Jarvis.

This one got his cell phone Orbitel 901, one of the first mobile phone models in It weighed two kilograms and was the size of a slabAccording to the American magazine GQ.

strange widget displayed on a tablet, Acquired by a Canadian who works in the new technologies sector and has not been identified.

In this way, the buyer has a digital copy and The only original communication protocol that sent that phone text message (SMS).

“We are very pleased with this success. We believe in the importance of the charitable aspect of this sale It gives us the opportunity to support a good cause. It was a one-of-a-kind auction, a true digital artifactMaximilien Aguttes, Auction House Development Director, details.

“It won’t be the last NFT that will go under the hammer inside the house of the AguttesBut he will continue to be exceptional to us.”

Benefit Of this sale, which the auction house calculated between 100,000 and 200,000 euros , to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.