A person using a mobile telephone to send a text message. Text messages still play a big role in the daily lives of many, with almost one in three sending and receiving SMS messages every day 30 years after the first text was sent.Web 1.0 is a new six part series from The Irish Times that looks at the origins of the modern internet.
They were also free. France Telecom issued them to every house in a bid to cut the cost of printing phone books. It was hugely successful: at one point they were logging a new customer every six seconds. Brandt helped increase their number of subscribers from 200,000 to more than 22 million, bringing many Americans online for the first time.
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