Random conversation in Matt McGrath’s office a couple years ago after reading Nick Chrisman’s book we all knew

Neil Papworth (Sema Group) sends the first SMS from his computer to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone

• Neil Papworth (Sema Group) sends the first SMS from his computer to an Orbitel 901 mobile phone

• Development instigated by Vodafone for use with an executive pager
• Received on December 3 1992, the message read rather festively; "Merry Christmas“
• Over 8 trillion text messages sent in 2012

The first web-based interactive map (Xerox PARC Map Viewer) was developed by Steve Putz

• The first web-based interactive map (Xerox PARC Map Viewer) was developed by Steve Putz

• Implemented as a Perl script
• Accepted requests for map renderings and returns an HTML document including an inlined GIF image

• Mosaic, the first popular web browser, released by NCSA (National Center for Supercomputer Applications)

• Written by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina