The incredible story of how a South African company sparked a global tech revolution – with four lines of code

In 2000, Cape Town company Clickatell created a way to send SMS from the internet to cellphones – a world first.

Along with his twin brother, Casper, and two friends Danie du Toit and Patrick Lawson, they created a way of sending SMS from the internet to cellphones – sparking a global revolution in digital communication. This fired up De Villiers’ long-standing interest in tech, which started as a young boy, when his dad brought an Apple computer back from the US in 1983. With his brother, he made the jump into tech by starting to working on building information platforms for optometrist practices.As the internet started booming, they thought about launching a “last-minute” booking travel venture.

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