{"id":30169,"date":"2021-12-21T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T17:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=30169"},"modified":"2021-12-21T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T17:56:18","slug":"merry-christmas-worlds-first-text-message-sells-as-nft-for-us121000-at-paris-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=30169","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Merry Christmas\u2019: world\u2019s first text message sells as NFT for US$121,000 at Paris auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe first text message ever sent, reading \u201cMerry Christmas,\u201d was sold on Tuesday for \u20ac107,000 (US$121,000) as a \u2018Non-Fungible Token\u2019 (NFT) at a Paris auction house.The text, which was sent on December 3, 1992, was put up for auction by the British telecoms company Vodafone.Vodafone engineer Neil Papworth sent the SMS from his computer to a manager in Britain, who received it on his 2kg (4lb) \u201cOrbitel\u201d telephone \u2013 similar to a desk phone but cordless and with a handle.\u201cThey were in the middle of\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3160607\/merry-christmas-worlds-first-text-message-sells-more-eu100000?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe first text message ever sent, reading \u201cMerry Christmas,\u201d was sold on Tuesday for \u20ac107,000 (US$121,000) as a \u2018Non-Fungible Token\u2019 (NFT) at a Paris&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":30170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}