Someone had to send the first email. Someone had to create the first computer virus. And obviously, someone had to register the first internet domain.
It's only because of so many technical visionaries that we have the Internet as we know it today.
Here are some of the humble first steps that got us here.
First mobile phone with Internet access: Nokia 9000 Communicator
Available in Finland in 1996, the Nokia 9000 Communicator was almost non-viable due to extremely high costs to the service providers.
In 1999, a much more practical Internet device called the i-Mode launched in Japan, but it wasn't the first.
First email: nonsense letters
Ray Tomlinson sent the first email in late 1972 between two computers sitting right next to each other. He doesn't remember what it said, but he speculates that it was just "QWERTYUIOP."
The first blog: Justin's Links To The Underground
Justin Hall is widely credited with starting the first blog in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College. It's still active today, with a full archive.
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