In my opinion this NFT is absolutely worth being bought because it holds a part of the world’s technological history. SMS is a very big component of the mobile phone and the evolution of technology at large, seeing the first SMS auctioned as an NFT is really a great way to preserve the technological history of mobile phone. Now that is an NFT worth bragging about. Imagine owning an NFT of the first text message. This NFT will be so priceless in the future because it’s supposed to be in a technological museum.
The buyer of the text message NFT is anonymous, I wouldn’t blame him, after buying one of the most priceless digital assets in the world, you need to hide your identity. This NFT was sold for $150,000 and comes with other attachments. The NFT came with proof of ownership of course, also came in with a frame of the representation of the phone receiving the text message. This text message was sent on a Christmas Day and it reads “Merry Christmas” so it makes sense that it was auctioned during the festive Christmas season to feel the vibe the sender felt when the text message was sent. The buyer also got the text message protocol from the Vodafone the text message was sent.
This text message is more than 29 years old, sent by the Vodafone programmer to the director. It is valid to note that the message was sent from a computer to hbd director’s phone. Not from a phone to phone. This act has revolutionized messages, we can’t deny the fact that this text message act has laid foundation to so many things that we have today on social media. We are talking from emojis to messaging apps like the WhatsApp, wechat, Facebook messager and a lot of other social media messengers used by millions of people all over the world.
You could be wondering, why was the first text message sent from a computer to a cell phone, why not from a cell phone to a cell phone, well 29 years ago, I don’t think cell phones had keyboards or buttons that has letters. I think all you could only do with buttons 29 years ago was dial a number and call. Well after that text message, a lot change in the mobile phone industry as more mobile phones with keyboards that displayed letters were invented.
Few months ago, Jack Dorsey sold the NFT of the first Twitter tweet for $2.4 Million, which is also another part of history, may be someday the first Hive blog can be sold as an NFT also. These are pieces of history, embedded in a blockchain.
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