What is surprising about the history of the internet?

 Here are some records in the history of the internet:

• The first search engine was WebCrawler.com in 1994.
• The first change on Wikipedia was made by Jimmy Wales (founder) writing "Hello, World!".
• The first domain in history is symbolycs .com and was registered on March 15, 1985 by Symbolics, a company that produced computers

• The first Instant Messenger chat was ICQ launched in 1996 and still used today.
• The first website in history (still online here) was put online by CERN in Geneva in 1990 and contains information for the World Wide Web Project J.
• The first e-mail was sent in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. The message was sent before the creation of the Internet network and before the introduction of the "@" symbol in the e-mail addresses!
• The first online bank was Stanford Federal Credit Union. In October 1994, it provided all its customers with Internet banking services.
• The first Blog is dated 1994 and was written by the American journalist Justin Hall.

• The first spam e-mail was apparently sent by Gary Thuerk, on Arpanet, in 1979. It was an advertisement sent to 393 people at once.
• The first web browser, released in 1993, was called Mosaic and can still be downloaded!
• The first podcast was by Dave Winer, an American software developer who in 2001 added audio content to his blog's RSS feed.
• The first mobile phone with Internet access was the Nokia 9000 Communicator (launched in 1996 in Finland).
• The first e-commerce website is called NetMarket.

• The first item sold on eBay was a broken $14.83 worth of laser pointer sold by one of the co-founders of the well-known e-commerce.
• The first video uploaded to YouTube was titled "Me at the Zoo" and was published on April 23, 2005 by YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim. It's still online and you can see it.
• The first Hacker attack in history took place in 1990. Object of the attack: the websites of the US Department of Justice, the US Air Force, the CIA, NASA and some others.
• The first Social Network was born in 2000 and it's called FriendUnited.
• The first GIF in history was created by Compuserve in 1987.