世界五大互联网公司 十大改变世界的互联网第一(上)

十大改变世界的互联网第一(上)  

The Inter has made the world a smaller place
with a far reaching influence that's altered the way we view cats and laugh at kids whacked out on drugs after a trip to the dentist. But apart from giving us easier ways to cackle at dumb things
it's also put more information at our fingertips than any invention in the history of mankind.
It's had a profound effect on the lives of people around the world in many different ways
yet everything we've e to take for granted online came from humble beginnings. Who knows
the next big thing may have already happened in a garage or a basement somewhere and we're just waiting for it to change the world.
t Picture
10.第一幅图片
The very first picture ever uploaded to the World Wide Web was a picture of the all-girl edy group Les Horrible Certes. The group was made up of administrative assistants and partners of researchers at The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Silvano de Gennaro
the group's manager
took the picture backstage at a music festival that was hosted annually by CERN. He Photoshopped it and saved it as a .gif file.
How this particular picture
instead of something artistic or science-based
came to be the first ever picture uploaded to the Web stemmed from the fact that de Gennaro worked at CERN near Tim Berners-Lee
inventor of the World Wide Web. When it came time to choose a picture to upload
Berners-Lee used the picture of the band because he wanted to show the heads at CERN that rather than just being a way for scientists to municate
the Inter could also be fun. He uploaded the picture on July 18
1992
forever immortalizing a badly photoshopped picture of a edy band that sang jokes about science.
t Email
Email got its start in the early 1960s
when researchers would leave messages in a mailbox for their colleagues
who could only access the notes on the same terminal. Computer-to-puter email got its start in 1968
when Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) was hired by the United States Defense Department to work on ARPANET
the precursor to the Inter. A BNN employee named Ray Tomlinson started working on an experimental file transfer protocol called CYPNET and noticed that it could be used in conjunction with SNDMSG
the program designed to leave electronic messages. In doing so
he discovered he could send a message from one puter to another.
Tomlinson realized that in order to do this
he needed to have an identifier that basically equated to a mailing address. That's when he came up with one of the most innovative
yet simple ideas of the 20th century: he chose the "@" symbol to connect the user and neork
simply because it made the most sense to him. It would include the user's name and the host where it should be sent. In July of 1971 Tomlinson sent the first email to the puter next to his
which read
"QWERTYIOP". After figuring out how to send messages from puter to puter
the idea flourished into the staple of everyday life that we know now.
t YouTube Video
The world's third most popular website got its start in early 2005 when it was created by PayPal employees Chad Hurley
Steve Chen
and Jawed Karim. The popular story
which Karim now disputes
is that Hurley and Chen were at a dinner party and were struggling to show videos
and those difficulties planted the seed that grew into YouTube.
They first registered the domain on February 14
2005
and worked on YouTube out of a garage for a few months. On April 23
2005
at 8:27 p.m. they posted the first video called Me at the zoo. The 19-second video features Karim standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo
talking about his interest in "really
really
really long trunks." Since its launch
YouTube has bee the dominant video streaming site and is synonymous with online videos. Only Facebook and Google are more popular websites
with YouTube receiving three billion visitors every day.
t Domain Name
Symbolics Inc. registered the first domain name

on March 15
1985. Symbolics Inc. grew out of MIT's Artificial Intelligence lab
and was the first pany to make workstation puters. They were actually so far ahead of the game that "workstation puter" wasn't even a term at that point. The pany went bankrupt in the late 1980s
but the owner of the domain kept paying the dues on the website until August of 2009
when it was sold to Investments for an undisclosed price. The website is now a museum of sorts
where you can visit and learn random facts about the Inter.
t Website
While Symbolics was the first domain registered
it wasn't the first website. After all
the inter and the World Wide Web are actually o different things. In the simplest terms
the Inter is what you connect to and the Web is how you view it.
You may remember CERN from the Les Horrible Certes photo or maybe the Large Hadron Collider
but they also launched very first website on August 6
1991. It was a simple page
similar to a Word document with black lettering on a white background with blue hyperlinks. It briefly described project W3
better known now as the World Wide Web. On April 30
2013 – the 20th anniversary of the announcement of the World Wide Web – CERN announced they would re-launch the website. They found a copy that dated back to 1992
with the hopes of digging even deeper into the archives for the earliest possible version.
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