The Evolution of Text Messaging

April 2nd, 2008 by brent

Text messaging or SMS is a topic of nearly everyone’s dinner table. 

Answernet has written up a great article detailing the history of text messaging.  It all started with the pager.  Here are some protocols used over the years.

  • Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol (TAP)
  • SNPP (Simple Network Paging Protocol)
  • WCTP (Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol)
  • SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - Email!)
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