Nightly News | December 03, 2012
Text message turns 20
The first text message was sent on Dec. 3, 1992 but the origination of texting shorthand ‘OMG’ came much earlier. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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This content comes from Closed Captioning that was broadcast along with this program.
>>> and text message , turning 20 years old, the first one sent in 1992 , by a british engineer, reading simply, merry christmas . and with that, sms text messages were launched, in fact, launching a whole new language. but in checking on the story, we discovered a well-worn and old favorite, omg is actually old. the first-known use was in a letter from lloyd fisher to winston churchhill , as somebody mentioned, making lord fisher a teenage girl.