I had already written another article about the history of the internet and how to see the websites of the past but this time I thought it was really interesting to find out who the number one is . Numbers 1 not in the sense of the best but the very first to invent, create or do something online that is done daily.
First of the internet that could safely end up in history books such as pioneers or inventors of incredible things that have changed the lives of many people in the world forever.
As for the other sectors of science, the internet, as technology, also deserves its historical awards and I think it is also natural to ask: who was the first to ... "> Symbolics.com celebrates 25 years of life and is a normal blog of a guy who writes in English.
3) The first spam email was apparently sent by Gary Thuerk to Arpanet in 1979.
It was an advertisement sent to 393 people simultaneously.
4) The first mobile phone with Internet access was the Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996 in Finland).
However, NTT DoCoMo i-mode (1999) in Japan is considered the pioneer of Cell Phone Internet Services.
5) The first website in history was //info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.htm/, launched at the end of 1990 at CERN in Geneva and still online today as it was then, with information for the World Wide Web Project.
This page is no longer accessible while the site is.
6) The first e-commerce and market transaction website was neither the eBay giant nor Amazon.
It's called NetMarket (online retailer) who claims to have sold a Sting CD for $ 12.48 plus shipping, on August 11, 1994.
7) The first online bank should have been the Stanford Federal Credit Union, considered to be the first financial institution that provided online Internet Banking services to all of its customers in October 1994.
8) The first search engine was neither Google (number one today) nor Yahoo but Webcrawler.com was launched in 1994.
Today webcrawler exists but it is only a supplement to the results of Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.
9) The first blog should go back to the Justin Hall diary that started in 1994 .
Actually the word blog was introduced in 1999 and derives from the term Weblog.
10) The first web browser was not Internet Explorer and was not Netscape, it was called Mosaic and was released in 1993.
Mosaic can still be downloaded today.
11) The first Podcast was by Dave Winer who added audio content to his blog's RSS feed in 2001.
12) The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer worth $ 14.83 offered for sale by one of the co-founders.
13) The first book sold on Amazon (1995) was Douglas Hofstadter's " Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought ".
14) The first modification on Wikipedia was made, rightly so, by its founder Jimmy Wales, writing the text "Hello, World!"
15) The first YouTube video was put online by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
The title of the video is " Me at the Zoo ", and there is still (here) on YouTube, with over 1.5 million views.
16) The first Twitter message was recorded by founder Jack Dorsey on March 21, 2006 who wrote " just setting up my twttr ". (at the beginning Twitter was called Twttr.
17) The first Voice Chat service was launched by Rocket Messenger and AOL.
Then there was Paltalk who had a resounding success.
18) The first hackers made a big impression in 1990, when the websites of the US Department of Justice, the US Air Force, the CIA, NASA and some others entered and ruined.
19) The first Social Network was obviously not Facebook but an Englishman who was called FriendUnited in 2000
The second was Friendster in 2002 but the biggest hit was MySpace the following year.
20) The first Instant Messenger type chat, like the modern MSN Messenger, was ICQ launched in 1996 and still widely used today.
20 Bis) The first article on the best Italian blog Navigaweb.net was "TV Card Guide to watch DVB-T digital terrestrial on the computer" of 30 March 2008 (most important historical date of all I would say) which still contains valid information.
