Here are 10 interesting things about the first happenings on the Internet like the first person to send an email, the person to download the first picture…
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson was the first person to send email. That email he sent to himself. At the time, Tomlinson was working at BBN Technologies, a company that played a key role in the birth of ARPANET – one of the early versions of the Internet. (Photo: Flickr).
The first email sent as spam was from DEC on ARPANET on May 3, 1978. It was sent to 393 people. (Photo: BI)
On March 15, 1985, Symbolics.com – the first domain name on the Internet was registered. (Photo: Symbolics).
On August 6, 1991, the world’s first website was officially published, its content simply explained about the World Wide Web (WWW). Currently, users can still visit this website by following the link below. (Photo: BI).
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
On July 18, 1992, Tim Burners Lee – the inventor of the World Wide Web posted the first photo on the Internet with the content of an image of a girl group called Les Horrible Cernettes. (Photo: Motherboard).
The first instant message sent via AOL was by Ted Leonsis, who later became AOL’s Vice President. That message Leonsis sent to his wife and read “Don’t be afraid… it’s me. Love and miss you.” (Photo: AP).
The first banner ad on the Internet was run in October 1994 at HotWired.com by Joe McCambley and advertised seven art museums and was sponsored by AT&T. (Photo: BI).
The first item sold on eBay (then called AuctionWeb) was a broken laser pointer. A collector of broken laser pointers paid .83 for it. (Photo: DailyMobile).
“Tere, kas sa kuuled mind? – Hello, can you hear me? was the first sentence transmitted via Skype was in Estonian in April 2003.
The first Facebook user is Mark Zuckerberg and his ID number is 4. The ID numbers 1, 2 and 3 are just a test account. Arie Hasi is the first person outside of Facebook’s founding team to have a social media account. (Photo: BuzzFeed).