15 Internet Firsts: The Primordial Soup From Which The Modern Web Slithered

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15 Internet Firsts: The Primordial Soup From Which The Modern Web Slithered

The slithering, ravenous, poisonous monster that is the modern internet had to start somewhere. For a glorious couple of decades, it was just a bunch of nerds doing nerd stuff: playing pranks, making a quick buck, and trying to score some weed. As we now know, it's evolved into something much more sinister: people playing pranks, people making a quick buck, and people trying to score some weed. Oh, and also other stuff, like mean people telling us to KYS (kiss your sister? Ew, that’s so depraved) or ads being tailored exactly to us to get us to spend more money than we have. Of course there are still fun and games. Lists like this are kind of fun, right? And there’s hundreds and hundreds (dare we say… thousands and thousands?) of games ranging from interesting to awful. Regardless, here are a few milestones from the early internet that were actually kinda cute, in hindsight.

The first AOL IM: 1993 DISK PROGRAM disk in vOu A MIEIRICA Insert (A disk drve flopoy the Fle Onlmme 8Y: click on Windows of your menu Managet: Progra

The first live webcam: 1991 wwwdcamacuk/coffeel WA CRACKED CON University of Cambridge researchers got tired of running to a different floor to check

Source: BBC

The first emoticon: 1982 -82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at 20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke :-) Read

Source: Wired

The first search engine: 1990 Archie Query Form for: CRACKED Archie (that's archive, minus the v) was created 8 years before Google, by college studen

Archie

The first e-mail: 1971 0.000000 CRACKEDON The first few missives sent using the symbol were messages from programmer Ray Tomlinson to... himself. He s

The first SPAM: 1978 SPAM P5% LESS SODIUM THAN SPAMO CLASSIG CRACKED COM It took 7 years from the first e-mail for the first SPAM to start clogging up

The first song download: 1994 TCEIOSMIUE CRACKED COM Aerosmith's Head First (off of Get a Grip) was the first song made available for digital downlo

Source: Vice

The first social network: 1995 CLASSMATES 1M Welcome to ClassMates Online This unique new service helps high school alumni friends find each other. Wh

The first image upload: 1992 Horribles Cernettes Les CRACKED CON Internet co-inventor Tim Berners-Lee uploaded this picture of Les Horribles Cernettes

Source: Gizmodo

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