Happy Birthday Internet
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What was the first word ever sent over the internet on October 29, 1969, before the system crashed?
Question 2:
What was the name of the network that preceded the internet, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense?
Question 3:
In what year...
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What was the first word ever sent over the internet on October 29, 1969, before the system crashed?
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What was the name of the network that preceded the internet, funded by the U.S. Department of Defense?
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In what year was the first email containing the @ symbol sent?
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Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, making the internet accessible to everyone?
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What was the name of the first web browser, released in 1990?
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0:03 Caliogus Shark Media, Greeting's digital explorers. I'm journey Joe Mitchell, and welcome to a tech savvy edition of five daily trivia questions. On this day in nineteen sixty nine, the first message was sent between computers at UCLA and Stanford, effectively berthing the Internet. Let's dive into some cyber history. Question one? What was the first word ever sent over the Internet? On October twenty ninth, nineteen sixty nine, before the system crashed? Question two? What was the name of the network that preceded the Internet? Funded by the US Department of Defense? Question three? In what year was the first email containing the AT symbol sent? Question four? Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in nineteen eighty nine making the Internet accessible to everyone? Question five?
1:07 What was the name of the first web browser? Released in nineteen ninety? Time to log in and access these answers, Welcome back, digital pioneers. Let's decrypt our answers. Question one asked what was the first word ever sent over the Internet? Answer? L attempting to send log in. Fun fact, the system crashed after just two letters, making L and accidentally prophetic, beginning to the digital age. Question two asked what was the name of the network that preceded the Internet. Answer Arpinet. Arpinet initially connected just four computers at different universities, but by nineteen seventy three it had expanded to forty computers across the country. Question three asked in what year was the first email containing the AT symbol sent? Answer nineteen seventy one. Fun fact Ray Tomlinson chose the atlasymbol because it was rarely used and wouldn't appear in people's names.
2:03 Question four asked who is credited with inventing the world Wide Web. Answer Tim Berner's Lee fun fact. He created it while working at CERN in Switzerland and made the technology freely available without patents or royalties. Question five asked what was the name of the first web browser? Answer Worldwide Web, later renamed Nexus fun fact Berners Lee built both the first web server and the first browser on a next computer the company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Apple. That concludes our journey through Internet history. As we send this trivia through cyberspace, remember how far we've come from that first lo This is journey. Joe Mitchell signing off until tomorrow. Keep your curiosity as connected as the Web itself.
2:49 And remember, in the world of trivia, every day is a new upload