A Mobile Phone Christmas Tree at Vodafone

A Christmas window display celebrating the world's first text message.

The world's first text message was sent over the Vodafone network on the 3rd December 1992.

This year Vodafone is celebrating this fact in its Christmas marketing activity, including window displays in retail stores, such as this one on Market Street in Manchester.

Find out more.

Check out the Vodafone website, and this article from 2017 that celebrated 25 years since the first text message, to find out more.

Link:

• Vodafone

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• Christmas Trees
• Retail
• Marketing
• Nostalgia
• Retro

Gremlins

The hit film Gremlins was released in the USA on this day in 1984.

What a day at the cinema that must've been - with Ghostbusters out on the same day!

Gremlins causing a scene at the Totally Stockport Comic Con a few years ago

Gizmo's in Morecambe, Lancashire is open from 4pm to late - I hope it closes before midnight

Ghostbusters Day

Happy Ghostbusters Day!

The blockbuster film was released in the USA on this day in 1984.

Ghostbusting in Urmston in 2019

Check out my Ghostbusters-related blog posts.