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Sunday afternoon fact: the world's first text message was just two words. On December 3, 1992, 22-year-old developer Neil Papworth typed "Merry Christmas" on a computer and sent it to a colleague's phone—phones couldn't send texts back yet, so there was no reply. What's the most low-key historic first you can remember being part of?

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