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Firsts

The first website is still online

Tim Berners-Lee published info.cern.ch in 1991 from a NeXT computer at CERN. It explained what the World Wide Web was — and the page is still reachable today.

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Firsts

The first email travelled about one metre

In 1971 Ray Tomlinson sent the first network email between two machines sitting side by side. He picked the @ symbol to separate user from host.

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Firsts

The first YouTube video was 19 seconds at a zoo

"Me at the zoo" was uploaded in April 2005 by co-founder Jawed Karim. It is a shaky clip about elephants having "really, really, really long trunks".

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Technology

The internet travels as pulses of light

Fibre optic cables carry data as laser light bouncing inside glass thinner than a hair, moving at roughly two-thirds the speed of light in vacuum.

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Technology

Almost all international data crosses the seabed

Satellites carry a tiny share — around 99% of intercontinental internet traffic runs through submarine cables, some no thicker than a garden hose.

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Inventions

The first internet message crashed after two letters

In 1969 a UCLA team tried to send LOGIN to Stanford over ARPANET. The system crashed after LO, making the internet's first word an accidental lo.

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