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 ...

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 ...