The first text message, a "Merry Christmas" greeting, was sent by British software programmer Neil Papworth in 1992. A year later, Nokia launched the Nokia 2110 — the first phone with the ...

Whether it’s a chocolate in heart shaped box, an emoji with hearts for eyes, iconic design such as I ️ NY or even liking an image on Instagram, the heart symbol is about as ubiquitous as it comes.

Valentine’s Day is once again upon us. In 2006, Keelin McDonell attempted to track down the origin of the holiday’s heart-symbol to explain how it got its familiar shape. Her article is ...

I can’t say definitively that this Packard ad campaign represents the first time the heart symbol was used in ad copy -- by which I mean that it was used in the body of the text right alongside ...

Simplacio Del Vecchio exhibits a dog with a sutured cardiac wound before the 11th International Medical Congress in Rome. National Library of Medicine. 10,000-8,000 B.C.E. The heart symbol, the ...