{"id":1514,"date":"2020-03-01T12:55:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T08:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techxmedia.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2025-04-17T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:29:12","slug":"ten-firsts-of-modern-technological-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techxmedia.com\/en\/ten-firsts-of-modern-technological-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Firsts of Modern Technological Era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By: Rabab Zehra<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020 is the last year of the second\ndecade of 21st century where the integration of multiple emerging technologies\nhas sped up. The frantic adoption rate of digital technologies has changed the\nway we think and work. Living in a world dominated by artificial intelligence,\nsmartphones, smart homes and much more, tech is a part of our daily life now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we see how technological\nwonders have revolutionized the lives we lead but it was not so long ago when\nthese things were unimaginable. We are not sending emails with attachment or\nusing wireless internet since forever. There was someone who had sent the first\nInstant Message or someone who published the first tweet ever. Following our\nseeds deeply buried in science and technology, we feel that our lives are like\nthis since forever, but actually \u2018There is a first time for everything\u2019. \nBelow are some surprising firsts of the modern technological era and exciting\nstories behind them which paved the way for the life we lead today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1.    The First IoT<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The networked doors, window blinds,\nelectric lights, refrigerator, security system and what not? All these devices\ncommunicating with each other through IoT have their roots back in 1980s. Some\ntechies twiddled with a soda vending machine and created history by making it\nthe world\u2019s first IoT device.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all started when a graduate\nstudent, David Nichols craved for soda in his campus but the vending machine\nwas a bit far from where he was. There was no way for him to be sure, if the\nmachine had enough soda. Another possibility was that if the machine was just\nrefilled, the soda would be warm enough and his drinking experience would be\nruined. It was this thought that led him to the idea of being able to control\nthe vending machine through a device or a technology, which was never heard\nbefore. Afterward, Nicholas along with his two friends, Mike and Ivor developed\nthe first IoT device which was a coke machine.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.    The First\nCyber Attack<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world\u2019s first cyber-attack, \u2018distributed denial of services\u2019<\/a> occurred when a 20-year old grad student, Robert Tappan Morris, son of famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr.<\/a> wrote a program that traveled through a large number of internet-connected devices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason behind the creation of this\nprogram was the curiosity of Morris to find out how big the internet is and how\nmany devices are connected to it. The program worked well and it became the\nfirst cyber-attack in the history of internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.    The First Domain:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The very first .com domain,\n\u2018symbolics.com\u2019 was registered on March 15th, 1985 by a company, Symbolics Inc.\nEven after 35 years of its formation, this domain still exists and remains the\noldest domain out of over 340 million domains in the internet world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in 2009, when Symbolics Inc. was going through a financial crisis they sold their domain to XF.com without disclosing the amount charged. Today XF has turned it into an online museum<\/a> precisely representing the changes internet has gone through in years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.    The First Smart\nPhone:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Simon\nPersonal Communicator\u2019 <\/a> is billed as\nthe first smartphone in the history of technology. It came in 1992 as the first\nphone which was small enough to be handheld and was able to receive and make\ncalls. The distinguished features which made it the first smartphone of the\nhistory were its touchscreen, ability to send receive faxes and emails. It also\nhad an address book, calendar, world clock, and calculator in it.\nCorrespondingly there were some idealistic applications like maps and news in\nit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.    The first photo\non internet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The very first photograph which was ever uploaded on internet was a shot of a comedy band \u2018Les Horribles Berners<\/a>. The main reason for uploading a photo was to check an updated version on the web whether it supports photos or not. It was uploaded in 1992 as a test image during the development of the World Wide Web by Tim Cernettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.    The First\nWireless Internet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unquestionably, the expansion of Wi-Fi\ntechnology has opened endless opportunities to work faster and smarter. Whether\nit is about finding the best restaurant in town or knowing the finest places to\nvisit during your next vacation, internet is always there. The 24\/7\navailability of wireless internet cannot be taken for granted as its access was\nnot always easy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It all started in 1971 when a\nscientist Norman Abramson<\/a>\nsuccessfully connected seven different computers wirelessly using a technology\ncalled Ultra High-Frequency radio waves (UHF). However, the real revolution\ntook place in late 1990s when Vic Hayes introduced IEEE 802 .11 <\/a> as International Standard of Wireless\nNetworking which was later named as Wi-Fi. Vic Hayes is also called as \u2018Father\nof WiFi\u2019 by many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7.    The First Social\nMedia Platform:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social media is the chief platform for\npeople of all ages now to stay connected with each other. Living in another\ntown or even in a different country doesn\u2019t seem so far now because of constant\nupdates of each other\u2019s lives via social media. Before social networking\nplatforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat became accessible to common\nmen, the first social media site has its roots back in 1997. Six\nDegrees<\/a> was recognized as the first website on which people\ncould interact with each other. Apart from communicating, it also had features\nwhere the users could update their profile and be friends with other\nusers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six Degrees was developed by a company\nMacroView. It had 3500,000 registered members on it and existed from 1997 \u2013\n2001.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.    The First Tweet:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of us still don\u2019t know that\nAmerican social networking site \u2018Twitter\u2019 was called \u2018twttr\u2019 in the beginning\nwhich was changed later. The first-ever tweet on this microblogging site was\nposted by its co-founder, Jack Dorsey in 2006. The tweet said, \u2018just setting up\nmy twttr\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.    The First\nEmail\/attachment:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathaniel Borenstein<\/a> known as\n\u2018father of email attachment was the first person who sent an email with an\nattachment in 1992. According to Borenstein, the idea generated in his mind when\nhe thought of receiving his grandchildren’s pictures on email one day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first email attachment had two\nfiles in it. The primary one was the picture of his barbershop quartet, \u2018The\nTelephone Chords\u2019 <\/a>while the subsequent one was of the chord\u2019s\nrecording, \u2018Let Me Call You Sweetheart\u2019. He sent this email to his colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10.  The First Facebook Account:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might not know that even the founder of Facebook, Mark Zukerberg<\/a> had the fourth account on Facebook rather than first. The reason behind this is, the first three accounts were test accounts created by Mark Zuckerberg himself which he deleted later. So, the first real Facebook account with ID number 4 still belongs to its founder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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