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Mar 8 / 6:51pm

18 interesting firsts on the Internet

Just discovered an interesting list, 18 first different things on the Internet [brief] history, thanks to the TechReaders site!

  1. The First Email: Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses in 1971.
  2. The First Ever Domain Name: "symbolics.com" registered by computer manufacturer Symbolics (now obsolete) on 15th March 1985.
  3. The First SPAM Email Ever: Gary Thuerk sent spam email messages to 393 people on ARPANET on 3rd May 1978.
  4. The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility: Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996, Finland).
  5. The First Ever Website: Info.cern.ch which was launched in late 1990.
  6. The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction: NetMarket that claims to process first ever secure transaction on the web on August 11, 1994.
  7. The First Ever Online Bank: Stanford Federal Credit Union that provides Online Internet Banking services to all of its customers in October, 1994.
  8. The First Ever Search Engine: WebCrawler.com which was launched in 1994.
  9. The First Ever Blog: Justin Halls is considered the first blogger who started a web diary in 1994. [The term webblog was introduced in 1997 which later led to “blog” in 1999].
  10. The First Ever Podcast: Dave Winer added audio content into the RSS feeds on January 11, 2001.
  11. The First Item Ever Sold on eBay: A broken laser pointer worth $14.83.
  12. The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon: Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas Hofstadter [1995].
  13. The first edit on Wikipedia: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder when doing a test edit with text “Hello, World!”
  14. The First Ever Video on YouTube: "Me at the Zoo" video put by the the cofounder of YouTube Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.
  15. The First Ever Message on Twitter: It was a demonstration message with text “just setting up my twttr” by the creator of Twitter, Jack Dorsey on 21st March 2006.
  16. The First Ever Voice Chat Service: Rocket Messenger.
  17. The First Ever Website Hacked: Federal websites that included US Department of Justic, U.S. Air Force, CIA, and NASA in 1990.
  18. The First Ever Social Network Site: Friendster.com which was launched in 2002.
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Feb 16 / 11:11pm

Check your LinkedIn connections or Facebook status on Outlook!

Microsoft just released a beta version of of the Outlook Social Connector, where users could check their LinkedIn connections, MySpace's friends or Facebook status from Outlook, the company's dekstop email program. Smart move!

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Feb 9 / 12:40am

Google launching Twitter-killer!

 

Following the launch of Yahoo's "status-casting" for its email service back in August 2009, Google will also allow its email users to their update status. Google could announce "the Twitter-killer" as soon as this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The prompt reads, "let people know what you're up to, or share links to photos, videos, and Web pages." But every time a user updates their status, the previous update disappears into the ether.

The WSJ says the new feature will "allow Gmail users to view a stream of status updates from people they choose to connect with." It will be tightly integrated with Google's video-sharing site YouTube and its photo-sharing site Picasa.

[via Business Insider]

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Feb 6 / 6:35pm

Facebook email? No, thanks!

When it comes to the online activity, the following is my daily habit in the morning: checking my emails, Twitter and blog's Dashboard.

Frankly speaking, even having two email accounts are too many for me. But those [Yahoo! Mail and Gmail] really help in term of personal email management. I am using Yahoo! Mail for all services' subscriptions and Gmail for self-hosted domain name's mail. I even often Twitter's private messages (called DM) to ping some friends.

Getting notice recently that Facebook is now planning to launch its own webmail service, I am a bit surprised. Do we need a new [web-based] email?

Oh wait. Might be Facebook is not targeting user like me. If Facebook is eyeing common users, instead of a user like me, so it does make sense. Why? Because Facebook is becoming less relevant for me. I refuse to even use Facebook for message things.

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