1) The First Website
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide
Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to
meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in
universities and institutes around the world.
The first website at CERN - and in the world - was dedicated to the
World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT
computer. The website described the basic features of the web; how to
access other people's documents and how to set up your own server. The
NeXT machine - the original web server - is still at CERN. As part of
the project to restore the first website , in 2013 CERN reinstated the world's first website to its original address.
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| Tim Berners Lee |
2) The First Loudspeaker
In 1877, Ernst Siemens released a more advanced version of an electric loudspeaker after Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, had patented a similar invention in 1876. At the same time, both Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison were experimenting with similar devices. Edison received a British patent while Tesla did not. In 1898, Horace Short developed a mechanism for amplifying sound using compressed air and he sold the rights to Charles Parsons. Record companies then began selling record players that used loudspeakers with this system.
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| Ernst von Siemens |
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| Speakers |
3) The First Telephone
The intention of telephone was the culmination of work done by many individuals, and involved an array of lawsuits founded upon the patent claims of several individuals and numerous companies. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
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| Alexander Graham Bell |
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| Telephone |
4) The First Computer
The first mechanical computer, created by Charles Babbage in 1822, doesn't really resemble what most would consider a computer today. Therefore, this document has been created with a listing of each of the computer firsts, starting with the Difference Engine and leading up to the computers we use today.
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| Charles Babbage |
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| Computer |
5) The First Mouse
The computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, with the assistance of Bill English, during the 1960's and was patented on November 17,1970.
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| Douglas Engelbart |
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| Mouse |
6) The First Headphone
Headphones originated from the telephone receiver earpiece, and were the only way to listen to electrical audio signals before amplifiers were developed. The first truly successful set was developed in 1910 by Nathaniel Baldwin, who made them by hand in his kitchen and sold them to the Unites States Navy.
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| Nathaniel Baldwin |
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| Headphones |
