The “Merry Christmas” message was sold by the operator Vodafone on December 21 in the form of NFT. The precise identity of the buyer remains unknown.
On December 3, 1992 at 6:09 p.m., the first SMS in the history of telephony was sent. A simple “Merry christmas“, Where “Merry Christmas», Received by Richard Jarvis, at the time director of the operator Vodafone. This piece of the past was sent from a computer to another relic: an Orbitel 901 phone.
This very first text was auctioned on December 21 for 107,000 euros, or 132,680 euros after adding auction costs. An auction organized by the Aguttes house. The buyer, whose detailed identity is not known, is Canadian and works in the telecommunications sector.
In a statement, the company Vodafone pledged to donate the entire amount collected to the United Nations agency for refugees. »READ ALSO – The NFT phenomenon sweeps across several sectors of the economy
Since a message is not tangible, it was in the form of NFT, a digital ownership certificate backed by the blockchain, that the SMS was obtained. In addition to this certificate, the buyer was awarded “an animated version of the original communication code” and “a digital frame“Representing the telephone”upon receipt of the world’s first SMS“.
This is not the first time that a fragment of the history of new technologies has been put on sale. The first email, the first tweet, the first site ever recorded … All were bought in the form of NFT, for prices sometimes reaching several million dollars.
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