Oct. 29, 2024

Happy Birthday Internet

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Question 1:
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 was the first email containing the @ symbol sent?
Question 4:
Who is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in 1989, making the internet accessible to everyone?
Question 5:
What was the name of the first web browser, released in 1990?
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Caliogus Shark Media, Greeting's digital explorers. I'm journey Joe Mitchell,

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and welcome to a tech savvy edition of five daily

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trivia questions. On this day in nineteen sixty nine, the

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first message was sent between computers at UCLA and Stanford,

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effectively berthing the Internet. Let's dive into some cyber history.

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Question one? What was the first word ever sent over

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the Internet? On October twenty ninth, nineteen sixty nine, before

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the system crashed? Question two? What was the name of

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the network that preceded the Internet? Funded by the US

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Department of Defense? Question three? In what year was the

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first email containing the AT symbol sent? Question four? Who

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is credited with inventing the World Wide Web in nineteen

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eighty nine making the Internet accessible to everyone? Question five?

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What was the name of the first web browser? Released

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in nineteen ninety? Time to log in and access these answers,

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Welcome back, digital pioneers. Let's decrypt our answers. Question one

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asked what was the first word ever sent over the Internet? Answer?

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L attempting to send log in. Fun fact, the system

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crashed after just two letters, making L and accidentally prophetic,

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beginning to the digital age. Question two asked what was

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the name of the network that preceded the Internet. Answer Arpinet.

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Arpinet initially connected just four computers at different universities, but

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by nineteen seventy three it had expanded to forty computers

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across the country. Question three asked in what year was

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the first email containing the AT symbol sent? Answer nineteen

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seventy one. Fun fact Ray Tomlinson chose the atlasymbol because

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it was rarely used and wouldn't appear in people's names.

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Question four asked who is credited with inventing the world

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Wide Web. Answer Tim Berner's Lee fun fact. He created

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it while working at CERN in Switzerland and made the

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technology freely available without patents or royalties. Question five asked

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what was the name of the first web browser? Answer

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Worldwide Web, later renamed Nexus fun fact Berners Lee built

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both the first web server and the first browser on

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a next computer the company Steve Jobs founded after leaving Apple.

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That concludes our journey through Internet history. As we send

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this trivia through cyberspace, remember how far we've come from

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that first lo This is journey. Joe Mitchell signing off

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until tomorrow. Keep your curiosity as connected as the Web itself.

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And remember, in the world of trivia, every day is

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a new upload

Happy Birthday Internet

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