27 Modern World Firsts

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27 Modern World Firsts

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Sure, sure, everyone knows who the first president was, and who was first to walk on the moon. The thing is, there are new firsts taking place all the time, and don't they deserve just as much love and attention as George Washington and Neil Armstrong? Of course they do.

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Lucasfilm

In 1986, Lucasfilm Games published Habitat the first persistent graphical world that could connect hundreds of people online. LUCASFILM'S HAitAt ALLOF
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Les Horribles Cernettes

This is the first personal photograph ever uploaded on the Internet. Horribles Cernottes Les It'ss a photo of a group of female singers who sang about
The first TV commercial that showed bras on live models aired in 1987. Old commercials for bras featured women who demonstrated bras on mannequins. Th
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. PA ebay eBay founder Pierre Omidyar disclosed in his listing that it didn't work. Yet, a

It Was All Downhill From There

The very first banner ad was a 1994 AT&T advertisement. YOU Have you ever clicked your mouse right HERE? WILL The theme of AT&T'S You Will ad campai
You Tube Ever wondered what was first comment ever posted on Youtube? Highlighted comment Marco Casse years ago LOL!!!!!!! REPLY 1.5K The honor belong
CRACKED.COM Chicago Hope was the first TV show to have a season broadcast in high definition. In additon, it was the first network show to use the wor
The first item bought online was a CD of Sting's Ten Summoner's Tales, in August 1994. ESSE 000 VISA 122 3172 042 VISA STING The buyer used his Visa
The first use of a barcode to purchase an item happened in 1974. The item was a pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum. WRIGLEY'S 5 STICKS JUICY FR
The first ever public online news repository was created by the New York Times- -in 1973. The New York Times Bank: A User's Perspective Information de

An American Family

The distinction of being the very first reality show goes to the 1973 PBS mini. series An American Family. The show followed the Louds (a large middle
The first ever LIVE STREAMING event was a performance by SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE in June 1993

Westworld

The pixellated robot vision in 1973's Westworld was the first computer-generated image of any kind in a movie. It was done by an experimental filmmake

Ground Control

THE FIRST MUSIC VIDEO RECORDED IN SPACE IS COMMANDER CHRIS HADFIELD'S COVER OF DAVID BOWIE'S SPACE ODDITY. TIDITEE It's also the first remote musica

Reddit

The first ever post on Reddit was a link to a story about the Downing Street memo. reddit REDDIT.COM comments other discussions (3) This is an archive

Flash Mobs

GRAOT The first flash mob occured in June 2003. RUG COLLECTION It was created by Bill Wasik, Harper's Magazine senior editor, as a social experiment.

Utah Teapot

The first object ever created using computer graphics was the Utah Teapot', in 1974. CRACKEDCOMT
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Emojis

This is what the very first emoji set, from 1999, looked like. a M Ye 6a YO X 00 OSr D 2 FAX 3 6 8 9 C OK sm0 ON pnd Each emoji's dimensions were just
The frst website ever created was CERN'S World Wide Web project website launched in 1989; it was hosted on a NeXT computer. EZO GRAGKEDCON

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The First Text Message

The first text message was sent December 3, 1992. It was Merry Christmas. 3DEF 2AC BMNO 5 JKL Wxt Aohl BTuV # 7PRS OOPR SND CLR END STO FCN BCL VOL
This is the first documented Google search, done by the founders: Google Gerhard Casper Google Search I'm Feeling Lucky Instead of showing them links
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