Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first text message sent by Vodafone’s Neil Papworth in 1992. But before Papworth sent his season’s greetings, Friedhelm Hillebrand, of Deutsche Telekom, was searching for the best way to include some kind of simple messaging system in the first major digital mobile standard–GSM. Learn more in our exhibition, "Make Software: Change the World!" http://bit.ly/2iOeCGo | Computer History Museum