The first 11 'appear on the web

If you are interested in web history, the following 11 interesting events may bring you more or more surprises.

1. The first photo on the net

The first photo posted online in web history is a photo . four women.

During the first days of WWW's birth, programmer Silvano de Gennaro worked at the prestigious CERN Institute (Switzerland) who brought the portrait of four women online.

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The first photo was posted on the Internet

In 1992, the father of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, built a new information system called the World Wide Web and ran the first site test at http://info.cern.ch/

Berners-Lee asked Gennaro to scan some pictures with party scenes at CERN to put on the website. Unaware of what Lee had told him, Gennaro struggled to pick up a picture and push it online. It turned out that a portrait of four women in classic fashion clothes of the early 1990s, played a comedy "Don't tell mom the babysitter's dead".

The picture is considered one of the hallmarks that changed the world. However, some fastidious people think that this is also the first revealing picture on the web.

2. First email

The first email of the Internet was owned by programmer Ray Tomlinson, born in 1971. Previously, users knew how to send electronic messages . but only among users of the same computer. ! Tomlinson created the foundation of the email service still in use today, structured abc@abc.com.

The "@" icon appears on the mail address to separate the email user name and the server system from which the service is provided. Thanks to that, Ray Tomlinson can send email to anyone without depending on the device used.

Did you know what Ray Tomlinson wrote in the first letter? Unfortunately, Tomlinson dropped in memory the first message sent by email. What this programmer is glaring at the top of the letter is "QWERTYUIOP" or something similar.

The first real email was a message from Tomlinson to colleagues, instructing how to use the service online.

3. First spam

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Spam 'seniors'

After 7 years email appeared, spam (spam) also first appeared on the Internet. This spam was sent by Gary Thuerkm in 1978 to promote DEC.

Unfortunately, the results obtained from the "bombing" are not satisfactory. In fact, the promotional letter is even more obnoxious than modern spam. Remember at that time, how slow was the network speed. To open a long letter like spam sent by Gary Thuerkm, it is very difficult (long mail because it contains a list of email addresses).

4. First banner ad

AT&T is the first company to have advertising banners on the Internet.

In October 1994, the founders of Wired multi-field magazine decided to build a private brand on the internet with Hotwired magazine - the electronic version. Advertising information was also introduced with the slogan 'Please buy ads in our new magazine, the magazine has only the electronic version'.

AT&T is the first partner to buy Hotwired advertising. However, instead of displaying banner information, Hotwired used a smart online advertising strategy, displaying attractive information, inviting readers to click on this banner.

5. The first item successfully traded on eBay auction networks

Pierre Omidyar started with eBay in September 1995. He is also the one who sold the first auction item on this network. It was a laser projection pen that was broken, costing 14 USD.

Today, eBay is still with Amazon as the world's leading provider of platform and auction services, opening up the trend of online shopping, a form of e-commerce.

6. The first tweet

Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, was the one who used the first Twitter service. 11 minutes later, Evan Williams, founder Evan Williams, also started tweeting.

At 12:15 on 21 March 2006, Stone wrote on his Twitter page the first line: 'I just installed my twttr'.

7. The first search engine on the Internet

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Interface of early search engine

It was Archie, created by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University (Canada), in 1990. Today, Archie still exists in a humble small corner at http://archie.icm.edu .pl / archie-adv_eng.html.

Archie currently only supports searching information from FTP hosting sites that allow guest access, or websites from Poland.

Alan Emtage is currently the CEO of Mediapolis, Inc., a New York-based web development company. Although Archie is not a bad product, only a few years later, the arrival of Google (1996) made Archie obsolete.

8. First domain name

The first domain name was registered as Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985 by Symbolics, a computer manufacturing company. However, Symbolics.com is no longer working as it was at the beginning.

9. The first video on YouTube

The first clip posted on YouTube belongs to Jawed Karim, co-founder of the cult video sharing network. The clip shows Jawed Karim standing in the park, giving a talk about elephants! This 19-second clip is 'online' from April 23, 2005.

It has now been viewed by over 1 million viewers. The video quality is quite bad at 4 years ago. You can review it here.

10. The first site has adult content

So far, the first site with adult content is still considered sex.com. The domain name was registered by Gary Kremen in 1994. However, Kremen soon lost his domain name. Stephen M. Cohen, a speculator, realizes the potential of this domain has contacted Network Solutions service providers, using evidence, fake signatures to steal from Gary Kremen.

Kremen is also not a medium hand. Although he has no intention of making money or posting pornographic information on sex.com, he is still vigorously suing Cohen to court. After a thrilling dispute, Kremen earned $ 65 million in compensation and regained the domain name.

Kremen sold the domain name for $ 12 million, after building a superficial property for match.com.

11. The first member of Friendster social network

It is the founder Jonathan Abrams, whose directory has a strange name: '101'.