Weatherday: The first of billions

La Boqueria food market, Barcelona (2001).

A dry start but cloudy through the morning. Some patchy light rain likely in the afternoon.

Highest temperature 6deg in light mainly southerly breeze.

On this day in 1992, the world's first SMS Text Message was sent, from the computer of software engineer Neil Papworth to the mobile phone of Vodaphone director Richard Jarvis. It said 'Merry Christmas'. Nowadays, 23 billion text messages are sent every day around the world.

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