10 jan 2009 | hal finney | "running bitcoin" 1972 | Finding Lena Forsen, the Patron Saint of JPEGs 23 april 2005 | The first ever YouTube video was uploaded 15 years ago The first ever YouTube video was uploaded on April 23, 2005 -- exactly 15 years ago, today. YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the 18-second video, titled "Me at the zoo." It has since garnered over 90 million views. To this day, it is the only video on Karim's channel. Upon clicking play, the screen fills with a young Karim's face, his disheveled hair taking up the screen front and center. "Alright," Karim begins. There he is. "The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long, um, trunks," he continues. So. Unlike many YouTube creators' videos these days, Karim's video does not include what's considered the more traditional sign off: "Subscribe to my channel!" He ends the video simply by stating: "And that's pretty much all there is to say." A year after "Me at the zoo," Karim and fellow co-founders sold the platform to Google for a whopping $1.65 billion. Now, the platform boasts more than 2 billion logged-in users visit each month, according to YouTube.
1973 | not exactly internet | cut copy paste - Larry Tesler, the UI pioneer responsible for cut, copy, and paste, dies at 74 Larry Tesler, a computer scientist who is most well-known for creating the seminal computer concepts cut, copy, and paste, died on Monday at age 74. Tesler was born in 1945 in New York and studied computer science at Stanford, according to Gizmodo. After working in AI research, he joined Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in 1973, where he developed cut, copy, and paste. The concepts would later become instrumental user interface building blocks for both text editors and entire computer operating systems. PARC is most famous for its early work on graphical user interfaces and how to navigate them with a mouse — and because Apple co-founder Steve Jobs saw this early research and used it as inspiration to develop better iterations of the ideas for Apple products. Tesler was also a champion of a concept called “modeless” computing, which is the idea that a program shouldn’t have different “modes” where a user’s input does different things based on whichever mode you’re in.
3 dec 1992 | SMS Turns 20 With A Touch Of Festive Cheer | Science Museum Blog Every time we invent a new communications device, somebody has to decide what the first every message will be. So, 20 years ago today, when 22-year-old British engineer, Neil Papworth, was trying out Vodafone's new SMS system out for the first time, what did he send? Well, as it was nearing Christmas, there was really only one choice: MERRY CHRISTMAS Every time we invent a new communications device, somebody has to decide what the first every message will be. Sometimes this is planned in advance and has a weighty meaning. For example, when the first American telegraph line was officially opened in 1844, the first message sent by Samuel Morse asked: What hath God wrought? On other occasions, the inventors of the technology were taken by surprise, such as Alexander Graham Bell. So, 20 years ago today, when 22-year-old British engineer, Neil Papworth, was trying out Vodafone’s new SMS system out for the first time, what did he send?
En 1979, une chaîne de mails sur la science-fiction inventait l'internet d'aujourd'hui Temps de lecture: 9 min Il y a quarante-neuf ans, lorsque les ordinateurs furent mis en réseau pour la première fois, le précurseur de l’internet que nous connaissons aujourd’hui n’intéressait que la science. Arpanet, la création de l’Advanced Research Projects Agency –ARPA, l'ancêtre de la DARPA d’aujourd’hui–, avait pour objectif de permettre aux scientifiques bénéficiant de financements par l’armée américaine de partager deux denrées alors incroyablement rares et coûteuses: le temps et la puissance de calcul. Réseau des réseaux À l’époque, seule une poignée d’universités disposaient d'ordinateurs. La seule façon d’en utiliser un –ou de transférer un fichier d’un appareil à un autre– était de voyager jusqu'à l’endroit qui l'hébergeait. Quelques semaines plus tard, un ordinateur de Santa Barbara, en Californie, et un autre situé dans l’Utah rejoignirent le réseau. Ces divers mini-réseaux présentaient toutefois un problème inattendu. Du moins jusqu’en 1979. Proto-communautés en ligne
dec 1975 | The World's First Digital Camera by Kodak and Steve Sasson If you’re a digital photography buff, here’s some required trivia knowledge: what you see above is a photograph of the first digital camera ever built. It was created in December 1975 by an engineer at Eastman Kodak named Steve Sasson, now regarded as the inventor of the digital camera. In a Kodak blog post written in 2007, Sasson explains how it was constructed: It had a lens that we took from a used parts bin from the Super 8 movie camera production line downstairs from our little lab on the second floor in Bldg 4. Here are some specs: The 8 pound camera recorded 0.01 megapixel black and white photos to a cassette tape. To play back images, data was read from the tape and then displayed on a television set: We’re sure come a long way since then, eh? Image credits: Photograph by Eastman Kodak
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2001 L'étonnante histoire du fond d'écran de Windows XP, l'image la plus vue au monde Pour la troisième année consécutive, "l'Obs" revient cet été sur plusieurs photos qui ont marqué l'histoire. A la une des journaux, dans les pages de nos livres d'école ou arborées fièrement sur nos tee-shirts, elles ont fait le tour du monde. Mais connaissez-vous l'histoire secrète de ces clichés mythiques ? La photo la plus vue de tous les temps ? Vert et bleu profonds. Ombres harmonieuses. C'est l'une des photos les plus vues de tous les temps, mais aussi celle qui marque le triomphe des banques d'images – paysages apaisés de carte postale, neutres, anhistoriques, impossibles à distinguer de pures créations numériques. Après avoir travaillé pour le "Los Angeles Times" et réalisé des missions de documentation pour l'Agence environnementale américaine, le photographe Charles "Chuck" O'Rear, dépêché en 1978 par le "National Geographic" dans la vallée de Napa, grande région viticole de Californie, avait décidé de se spécialiser dans les photos de vignobles. Extase dans la vallée de Napa
1994 The First-Ever Banner Ad on the Web - The Atlantic People don’t often click on banner ads these days—at least not on purpose, anyway. In fact, many internet users actively go out of their way to never see advertisements. Ad blockers create all kinds of problems for companies that rely on ad dollars to pay their workers (cough cough like journalists cough), but it’s understandable why ad blockers appeal to people. Display ads are too often clunky, ugly, and intrusive—all kinds of ad trackers collect and sell data about people. All this is part of why reports that Google will make ad blocking part of its Chrome web browser are so ominous: Google, the largest beneficiary of web advertising on the planet, wants to block ads that help anybody else make money. How did we get here? There was a time, in another century, when people used to click on banner ads. The ad set off a chain reaction that altered the course of the advertising industry—and any other industry that overlapped with it. Banner ads caught on quickly.
1996 jennicam Elle s'appelle Jennifer Johnson. Mais, pour le grand public, elle a surtout longtemps été «Jennicam». Entre 1996 et 2003, elle s'est adonnée à une activité que personne n'osait envisager. Pendant sept ans, elle a choisi de montrer sa vie –sans filtre– à des millions de personnes. Jennifer, 19 ans, est étudiante au Duckinson College, en Pennsylvanie, aux États-Unis. «J'étais une nerd, racontait-elle, fin 2014, à Reply All. Toutes les quinze minutes, la webcam, placée au-dessus de son ordinateur et pointée vers son lit dans sa chambre d'étudiante, prend une photo. 24 heures sur 24. Souvent, les photos sont juste celles d'une pièce vide, car Jennifer va en cours la journée, et ne reste pas forcément chez elle pendant son temps libre. «Ce diaporama de l'ordinaire était totalement captivant. «À son apogée, elle a cassé internet» Jennicam a eu un immense succès. Il faut dire, que la simple idée d'apercevoir «un peu de nudité ou de sexe faisait partie de l'attrait, rappelle Reply All.
1996 Jennicam: The first woman to stream her life on the internet Image copyright JKR In 1996, 19-year-old Jennifer Ringley turned on a webcam that sat on top of the computer in her college dorm room. In that simple act, writes Aleks Krotoski, she changed the modern world. It would be, at first glance, a perfectly innocent thing to do. In our social-media-strewn world of overshared snapchatting, this is not news. The only remarkable thing a modern-day Facebook Live consumer might find about Jennicam, as it was called, would be how rubbish it was: one innocuous, grainy, still, black-and-white image on her website was replaced every 15 seconds by another innocuous, grainy, still, black-and-white image. But it propelled Jennifer Ringley to unprecedented fame and laid the foundations for the conversations we have about the web today. Find us on Facebook Webcams were a profoundly future-feeling technology then, during the era when you had to use a modem and a dial-up connection. Websites took whole minutes to upload, each minute paid for one by one.