This message was sent on December 3, 1992 by the British computer engineer Neil Papworth to his colleague Richard Jarvis, via the Vodafone network.
Le Monde with AFP
The first SMS of history, transmitted by the Vodafone operator on December 3, 1992, is brought to auction, Tuesday, December 21, in the form of NFT, these certified digital goods that upset the culture market. The house Aguttes, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, welcomes this sale.
At the time by Richard Jarvis, a collaborator of Vodafone, during the Christmas parties, the SMS is composed of fifteen characters: “Merry Christmas” (“Merry Christmas”).
The future buyer, who can make his payment in cryptomonnaie, will become the exclusive owner of a digital and unique replica of the original communication protocol that has transmitted the world’s first SMS.
The Vodafone operator explained that it would return the product of the sale to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
The new golden egg chicken of the market of the market. Art
Quasi unknown There are another year, NFTs are like a certificate of authenticity for an object, virtual or real, based on blockchain technology, an inviolable system that also authenticates exchange transactions from Cryptomonnaires.
An NFT is unique and can not be exchanged for an equivalent, hence its name: non-filtable token (“non fungible token”).
They represent for some the new hen with golden eggs of the contemporary art market and have become in a few months the essential sales houses, reaching several millions of dollars – the record returning to A fully digital work of the American artist Beeple, sold $ 69.3 million in March at Christie’s.