Famous Internet Firsts

Famous Internet Firsts. first emai 1. The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar," he said. first domain 2. The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. Now it serves as a historic site. first website 3. The first website was dedicated to information about the World Wide Web and went live on August 6, 1991. Here's the url: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. The first picture 4. The first picture ever uploaded on the web was posted by Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) on behalf of a comedy band called Les Horrible Cernettes. The first AOL Instant Message 5. The first AOL Instant Message was sent by Ted Leonsis to his wife on Jan. 6, 1993. It read, "Don't be scared it is me. Love you and miss you." His wife replied, "Wow this is so cool!" Leonsis later became AOL's Vice Chairman. first banner 6. Joe McCambley ran the first banner ad ever online. It went live in October 1994 on HotWired.com and it promoted 7 art museums, sponsored by AT&T. The first item sold on eBay 7. The first item sold on eBay (back then it was AuctionWeb) was a broken laser pointer for .83 in 1995. The man who bought it told founder Pierre Omidyar he collected broken laser pointers. The first book purchased on Amazon 8. The first book purchased on Amazon was Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought in 1995. Mark Zuckerberg was the first person on Facebook 10. Mark Zuckerberg was the first person on Facebook with ID number 4 (the first three Facebook accounts were used for testing). The first non-founder to join Facebook was Arie Hasit (below), who is now in Israel studying to be a rabbi. he first YouTube video 11. The first YouTube video posted was posted by co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. It was uploaded on April 23, 2005 and has been watched nearly 10 million times. The first video on YouTube. Maybe it&#39;s time to go back to the zoo? The first tweet 12. The first tweet was written by co-founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006. The first yepse 13. The first yepse is posted by Veselin Demirev on January 2013. ...

Famous Internet Firsts

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