五大改变世界的互联网“第一”

The Internet has made the world a smaller place， with a far reaching influence thats altered the way we view cats and laugh at kids whacked out on drugs after a trip to the dentist. But apart from giving us easier ways to cackle at dumb things， its also put more information at our fingertips than any invention in the history of mankind.

互聯网让世界变得越来越小，它的影响深远，改变了我们对喵星人的认识，也改变了我们拿小孩子逗乐的方式，比如网上那些关于看完牙医后被药物搞得筋疲力尽的孩子的视频。但是，除了能让我们更方便地对这些蠢事咯咯发笑，互联网还让我们轻而易举地获得了大量信息，这是人类历史上任何其他发明都无可比拟的。

1. First Picture

1. 第一幅图片

The very first picture ever uploaded to the World Wide Web was a picture of the all-girl group Les Horrible Cernettes. The group was made up of administrative assistants and partners of researchers at the European Organization for Nuclear Research （CERN）. Silvano de Gennaro， the groups manager， took the picture backstage at a music festival that was hosted annually by CERN. He photoshopped it and saved it as a .gif file.

第一幅上传到万维网的图片是一张女子乐队“CERN女郎”的照片。这个组合由来自欧洲核子研究组织的行政助理与研究人员组成。CERN每年会主办一次音乐节，乐队经理席尔瓦诺·詹纳罗在一次音乐节的后台拍下了这张照片，他将图片处理后保存为.gif格式的文件。

Silvano de Gennaro worked at CERN near Tim Berners-Lee， inventor of the World Wide Web， who uploaded the picture on July 18，1992 to show the heads at CERN that rather than just being a way for scientists to communicate， the Internet could also be fun.

詹纳罗是万维网之父蒂母·博纳斯-李在CERN的同事。博纳斯-李在1992年7月18日上传了这张照片，目的就是想向CERN的领导们证明，互联网不仅是科学家之间的交流工具，它也可以很有趣。

2. First Email

2. 第一封电子邮件

Email got its start in the early 1960s， when researchers would leave messages in a mailbox for their colleagues， who could only access the notes on the same terminal. Computer-to-computer email got its start in 1968， when Bolt Beranek and Newman （BBN） was hired by the United States Defense Department to work on ARPANET， the precursor to the Internet. In July of 1971 a BNN employee named Ray Tomlinson sent the first email to the computer next to his， which read， “QWERTYIOP”. After figuring out how to send messages from computer to computer， the idea flourished into the staple of everyday life that we know now.

电子邮件出现于20世纪60年代，研究人员会在邮箱里给同事留言，但对方只能在同一个终端才能接收到这些信息。计算机对计算机的邮件最早出现在1968年，当时BBN科技公司受聘为美国国防部研究阿帕网，即因特网的前身。1971年7月，一位名叫雷·汤姆林森的BNN员工向他身边的电脑寄出了第一封电子邮件，内容为“QWERTYIOP”。实现了机对机发送信息后，电子邮件逐渐发展成为我们现在所熟悉的日常必需品。

3. First YouTube Video

3. 第一个YouTube视频

The worlds third most popular website got its start in early 2005 when it was created by PayPal employees Chad Hurley， Steve Chen， and Jawed Karim. They first registered the domain on February 14， 2005， and worked on YouTube out of a garage for a few months. On April 23， 2005， at 8：27 pm they posted the first video called Me at the Zoo. The 19-second video features Karim standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo， talking about his interest in “really， really， really long trunks.” Since its launch， YouTube has become the dominant video streaming site and is synonymous with online videos. Only Facebook and Google are more popular websites， with YouTube receiving three billion visitors every day.

世界第三大热门网站YouTube创立于2005年初，创始人是PayPal公司的员工查德·赫尔利、陈安之和贾伟德·卡里姆。他们在2005年2月14日首次注册了域名，然后窝在一个车库里为YouTube的发展奋战数月。同年4月23日下午8点27分，他们在YouTube上发布了第一个视频，名为《我在动物园》。在这个19秒的视频中，卡里姆站在圣地亚哥动物园的大象前面，兴致勃勃地谈论着“象鼻真的、真的、真的很长”。自创立以来，YouTube已经成为视频媒体网站和在线视频的代名词。它每天的访问量可以达到30亿，仅次于脸书和谷歌。

4. First Domain Name

4. 第一个域名

Symbolics Inc. registered the first domain name， Symbolics.com， on March 15， 1985. Symbolics Inc. grew out of MITs Artificial Intelligence lab， and was the first company to make workstation computers. They were actually so far ahead of the game that “workstation computer” wasnt even a term at that point. The company went bankrupt in the late 1980s， but the owner of the domain kept paying the dues on the website until August of 2009， when it was sold to XF.com Investments for an undisclosed price. The website is now a museum of sorts， where you can visit and learn random facts about the Internet.

Symbolics 公司在1985年3月15日注册了第一个域名：Symbolics.com。该公司是从麻省理工学院人工智能实验室分拆出来的，也是首家制造工作站计算机的公司。他们在当时的业界遥遥领先，因为那时“工作站计算机”甚至还不是一个专有名词。公司在20世纪80年代末破产，但是这个域名的拥有者仍然坚持支付网站费用。直到2009年8月，该域名卖给XF.com投资公司，价格未予披露。这个网站现在类似于博物馆，在那你可以随意浏览并了解有关互联网的一切。

5. First Website

5. 第一个网站

While Symbolics was the first domain registered， it wasnt the first website. After all， the Internet and the World Wide Web are actually two different things. In the simplest terms， the Internet is what you connect to and the Web is how you view it.

雖然Symbolics是第一个注册的域名，但并不是第一个网站。毕竟因特网和万维网实际上并非一回事。简单来说，因特网是你连接到的地方，而网站决定你怎样浏览它。

You may remember CERN from the Les Horrible Cernettes photo or maybe the Large Hadron Collider， but they also launched very first website on August 6， 1991. It was a simple page， similar to a Word document with black lettering on a white background with blue hyperlinks. It briefly described project W3， better known now as the World Wide Web.

你或许还因为文章开头“CERN女郎”的照片或者听过大型强子对撞机而对欧洲核子研究中心（CERN）有些印象，但也是他们在1991年8月6日创办了第一个网站。这只是一个简单的网页，和白底黑字、有着蓝色超链接的word文档相似。简称W3项目，就是我们现在所熟知的万维网。