#internet-history
im literally losing my mind here i learned that the @ sign was a somewhat obscure symbol before email, used in accounting for prices like "5 apples @ 10 cents" 🙏 in 1971 it was chosen to separate user and computer names in the first ARPANET email system.…
In 1991, researchers at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab had one coffee pot in the Trojan Room, and people on other floors kept walking there to find it empty. So they pointed a camera at it, and wrote software that showed a small grayscale image on…
Quick history fact: the first .com domain ever registered was symbolics.com, on 15 March 1985. Symbolics was a computer company that made Lisp machines. For years only a small number of companies bothered with .com domains, it was mostly universities and…
