{"id":23743,"date":"2021-12-23T13:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T08:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=23743"},"modified":"2021-12-23T13:35:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T08:35:08","slug":"merry-christmas-worlds-first-ever-sms-sells-for-121000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/23743","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217;: World&#8217;s first-ever SMS sells for $121,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>World&#8217;s first-ever text message of 15-character was &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217;, sent on the Vodafone network and received by Vodafone employee Richard Jarvis on 3 December 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Vodafone has auctioned the text message as NFT and proceeds from the auction will be going to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support forcibly displaced people.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23745\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/afghanistan.kivazen.com_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/afghanistan.kivazen.com_-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/afghanistan.kivazen.com_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/afghanistan.kivazen.com_-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/afghanistan.kivazen.com_.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: afghanistan.kivazen.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first SMS ever sent over a mobile phone in 1992 was sold Tuesday as an NFT at auction for 107,000 euros ($120,600), the Aguttes auction house said.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer, whose identity was not disclosed but is a Canadian involved in the tech sector, is now the owner of a unique digital replica of the first SMS message in the form of a Non-Fungible Token, or NFT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: World&#8217;s first-ever text message of 15-character was &#8216;Merry Christmas&#8217;, sent on the Vodafone network and received by Vodafone employee Richard Jarvis on 3 December 1992. Vodafone has auctioned the text message as NFT and proceeds from the auction will be going to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support forcibly displaced people. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23746,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23743\/revisions\/23746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}