British telecommunications operator Vodafone has put up for auction the first ever SMS message. The starting price of the lot, which will be drawn by the Aguttes trading house, will be € 100,000.
The first ever SMS message was sent on December 3, 1992 by programmer Neil Papworth, who was part of the technology development team, to the then director of Vodafone, Richard Jarvis. The message was a congratulation: “Merry Christmas!”
A single NFT token was issued for the auction. However, in France, the sale of non-fungible tokens is prohibited, so the auction will formally play out an installation made of acrylic with a screen on which an exact copy of the original communication protocol of the world’s first SMS message will be displayed, as well as the phone number of the Vodafone director at the moment when the very same one came to him. message. And as an addition to the installation, the winner of the auction will receive a certificate with the address of the smart contract, which secures to him the right to own a replica of the first SMS message in history.
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