This week, in honor of this being the first week of WWN, we will have a list of firsts shown for all of you. You may be asking yourself, "Will I ever need any of the facts by WWN?" And the answer is, "No, probably not." They're just cool to read.
The first first on the list of firsts on the first post is:
- The first e-mail ever sent was sent my Ray Tomlison, in 1971 to himself. It was a test e-mail that consisted of letters: QWERTYUIOP. Tomlinson is more famous, however, for developing the @ sign.
- On December 3, 1992, the words MERRY CHRISTMAS were sent from a computer belonging to British engineer Neil Papworth to the mobile phone of his friend Richard Jarvis.
- The first movie ever made was The Horse in Motion in the year 1878.
- "Kinseska Muren" by Swedish artist Evert Taube was the first rap song ever recorded, in the early 1920s. A music video was produced but was grainy and low quality that would, today, be laughable.
- The first YouTube video ever was uploaded on Saturday April 23rd, 2005. It was called "Me at the Zoo."
- The first language ever spoken is undetermined, but suspected to be a very non-complex, few-words series of odd noises (caveman, Neandrethal speak) with no grammar or way to write it besides pictures describing sights, foreshadows, thoughts, etc.
- The first book ever published was called The Epic of Gilgamesh, and is credited as the first work of fiction. The author is unknown, but the time period was the time the Chinese developed the printing press.
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