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.

Did you tweet during the Oscars broadcast recently? I agreed that sometimes tweets were more entertaining than the show itself, like the AP writer found:

• "Shhhh. I'm live tweeting from directly under Sandra Bullocks chair." — Rainn Wilson (@rainnwilson), actor.
• "Charlize Theron would like to thank R. Crumb and my 16-year-old id for designing her outfit tonight." — David Itzkoff (@ditzkoff), New York Times reporter.
• "Just got lost for a minute, sorry. Where was I? Oh yeah ... Zach Effron's (Zac Efron) eyes!" — Rob Corddry (@robcorddr), comedian.
• "Looks like a Young Victoria sweep." — David Wain (@davidwain), comedian.
• "Shortest Oscar story in history: ( ! > $ )" — Roger Ebert (@ebertchicago), film critic.
• "Jeff Bridges is quickly closing in on Matthew McConaughey for `best actor who has become a character from an early movie.'" — Bill Simmons (@sportsguy33), ESPN columnist.
• "Oscars Fun Fact — Samuel L. Jackson spends 40 percent of his yearly income on Kangol hats ..." — Eric Stangel (@EricStangel), "Late Show With David Letterman" writer-producer.
• "Oh, Sam Worthington, your glasses make me think you're imperfect and therefore accessible." — Mindy Kaling (@mindykaling), actor-writer.
• "Oprah's about to tell everyone in the audience there's an Oscar under their seat." — Foster Kamer (@weareyourfek), blogger.
• "James Cameron is going into his own hurt locker right now." — Paul Scheer (@paulscheer), comedian.

Have you also found funniest tweets? Or created one? Please share here :-D

[via Yahoo! News]

Here we go: One year ago Twitter generated one billion tweets; four months ago with 5 billion tweets; and now, Twitter hit another milestone: 10 billion tweets!

Andrew Mager just blogged regarding some cool facts about how large 10 billion really is:

From Wikipedia

• About 10⁹ minutes ago, the Roman Empire was flourishing. (109 minutes is roughly 1,900 years.)
• About 10⁹ hours ago, modern human beings and their ancestors were living in the Stone Age (more precisely, the Middle Paleolithic). (10⁹ hours is roughly 114,000 years.)
• About 10⁹ years ago, the first multicellular eukaryotes appeared on Earth.
• 10⁹ centimetres is about the distance from Chicago to Tokyo.
• The possession of assets with total value of 10⁹ US dollars would place a person among the world’s wealthiest individuals.

[via ZDNet]

Here is a list of ways you can help thousands are believed to have been left homeless following the aftermath of the magnitude-8.8 quake in Chile yesterday. The following organizations have confirmed that they are responding in Chile:

American Red Cross
The American Red Cross is making funds available for relief operations in Chile while also helping people in Hawaii prepare for a possible tsunami. Donate to the American Red Cross.

AmeriCares
AmeriCares is sending a rapid response team to help provide disaster relief in Chile.  Medicines, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid are being readied for immediate shipment. Donate to AmeriCares.

Direct Relief International
Direct Relief International has offered assistance to Chilean authorities, emergency relief organizations, and U.S.-based partners working in Chile. Donate to Direct Relief International.

Operation USA
Operation USA is sending medical aid to Chile as necessary as part of the relief efforts following the earthquake. Donate to Operation USA.

OXFAM America
Oxfam is flying in an emergency team to assess the disaster and prepare a response. Donate to OXFAM America.

World Vision International
World Vision is getting ready to transport emergency relief supplies and to send more staff to support the relief response. Donate to World Vision International.

Chile country profiles: BBC, Wikipedia, Lonely Planet

[via Yahoo! News]

Dear Tweeple, please note this: you can't copyright or "license" what you said on Twitter. Since the messages are too short and in the public domain.

Contrary to popular belief and Twitter’s terms of service, you cannot copyright a Tweet. Under US law, copyright is granted on publication to “original works of authorship” finalized in “fixed forms of expression” but this does not extend to names, titles, or short phrases (PDF).

As messages sent via Twitter cannot be longer than 140 characters, they cannot be copyrighted. However original, witty, or profound they may be, nothing more than good manners protects your original expression of authorship. If you wish to let other people quote or use your Tweets, you need not “license” them; indeed, technically, you cannot license them, since they are in the public domain the instant you publish them.

[via Zeldman]

This is Yahoo!'s latest move into social media landscape. You'll see real-time public Twitter updates on Yahoo! News, Finance, Entertainment as well as Search. Cool.

Not to be left out of the Twitter partnership spree, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is set to announce a deal with Twitter this evening to integrate the microblogging service across its properties worldwide. Yahoo users will now be able to access their personal Twitter feeds and update their Twitter status on Yahoo sites, including the home page (which already allowed users to edit their status on social networks including MySpace and Facebook). In addition, Yahoo says that all of its properties—including News, Finance, Entertainment and Sports—will soon feature “real-time public Twitter updates.” And like Microsoft’s Bing and Google, Yahoo will also add real-time Twitter results to its search engine.

[via PaidContent | image credit | Disclosure: I'm working at Yahoo!]

Looking forward to see His Holiness' upcoming tweets...

This Dalai Lama is verified by Twitter, though — it is the real deal. Currently, the account is pulling albums and blog posts from his website and tweeting them via twitterfeed, though we bet you’ll see real engagement later on.

[via Mashable]

President Barack Obama is looking for an official Tweeple. Hohohoho... that's an interesting and exciting job, right? Anyone interested?

The Democratic National Committee’s “social networks manager” job description says the position entails maintaining the President’s accounts on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace.

Mia Cambronero, who currently holds the job, “will be stepping down from my infamous role as ‘Barack Obama’s twitterer,’” she said in an email message posted to a listserv. “We’re looking for someone who is available to start immediately.”

The new hire will work closely with the rest of the new media department to execute grassroots campaigns to advance the President’s agenda for change, the listing says. Among the qualifications sought: “Ready to work hard; this isn’t a 9-5 sort of job.”

As of December, Twitter served more than one billion tweets per month, according to Pingdom research. January even passed 1.2 billion, meaning that Twitter seeing average almost 40 million tweets per day!

Over the past few months there has been plenty of speculation around the Web that Twitter’s growth has stalled, but if we look at activity on Twitter in terms of the number of tweets, this is far from the truth.

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]