--- title: Jimmy Carter Sent His First Text Message description: "That was my first text message." No, seriously canonical: https://time.com/39626/jimmy-carter-text-message/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-03-27T00:52:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:14.191Z og:title: Jimmy Carter Sent His First Text Message og:description: "That was my first text message." No, seriously og:url: https://time.com/39626/jimmy-carter-text-message/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Carter Sent His First Text Message twitter:description: "That was my first text message." No, seriously twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Carter Sent His First Text Message  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Mar 27, 2014 12:52 AM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Mar 27, 2014 12:52 AM UTC Former President Jimmy Carter sent his first text message Wednesday. Carter’s grandson, a candidate in Georgia’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, later tweeted Carter’s text. Here: > [](https://twitter.com/carter4governor/status/448941380669169665) \[h/t [Politico](http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/jimmy-carter-sends-1st-text-message-105078.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/39626/jimmy-carter-text-message/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/39626/jimmy-carter-text-message/"},"headline":"Jimmy Carter Sent His First Text Message","datePublished":"2014-03-27T00:52:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:14.191Z","description":"\"That was my first text message.\" No, seriously","url":"https://time.com/39626/jimmy-carter-text-message/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Jimmy Carter"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/39626/jimmy-carter-text-message/","name":"Jimmy Carter Sent His First Text Message"}}]}] ```