In the Wikipedia entry on text messaging, the section on the history said: “The first deaf person to send a text message was in April 1995 by David Jackson, a Deaf researcher working at the Centre for Deaf Studies within the University of Bristol; the research project he was involved in was a joint venture between the university, Orange and Nokia.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging
- Thanks to Gary Viall and NVRC, Fairfax
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