{"id":8558,"date":"2012-12-01T21:07:24","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8558"},"modified":"2012-12-01T21:07:24","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T03:07:24","slug":"happy-bday-sms-txt-msgs-turn-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8558","title":{"rendered":"Happy bday! SMS txt msgs turn 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The approval was finally given and the systems interconnected, then Papworth, sitting in front of a personal computer, tapped out the greeting &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; and sent it via SMS to Vodafone Director Richard Jarvis.<\/p>\n<p>The text-messaging era was born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9234203\/Happy_bday_SMS_txt_msgs_turn_20\">Happy bday! SMS txt msgs turn 20 &#8211; Computerworld<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perhaps it&#8217;s no surprise then that in late 1995, three years after Papworth&#8217;s first text message, users were only sending an average of one text every two and a half months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The approval was finally given and the systems interconnected, then Papworth, sitting in front of a personal computer, tapped out the greeting &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; and sent it via SMS to Vodafone Director Richard Jarvis. The text-messaging era was born. via &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[645,309],"class_list":["post-8558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-history","tag-sms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8559,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8558\/revisions\/8559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}