The First Email, The First Tweet, And 13 Other Famous Internet Firsts

When was the first email sent, and who sent it?

What was the first ad to ever run on a web page?

How about the first picture uploaded to the Internet?

Here are 15 famous Internet firsts that were monumental in shaping web history.

The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson to himself in 1971. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar," he said.

We can blame ARPANET for the first spam email, which was sent to 393 people on May 3, 1978.

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. Now it serves as a historic site.

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