(no music) #1232 Trivia Tuesday - Let Me Bore You To Sleep (13th November 2024)

Hello, hello, hello! Welcome to Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name's Jason Newland. Please only listen when you can safely close your eyes.

Vinnie! Oh, he's going to have a drink of water. And this is Trivia Tuesday. My website's jasonnewland.com. It's now up and running again.

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So that's all on my website. Let's have a look. So today, today I'm going to choose a weird subject like I try to.

So I'm going to do a trivia of medical history. So I'll try and keep it. Some of it's a bit weird.

You know, we're talking about the past here. We're talking about, you know, up to 3000 years ago, some of this stuff. So, you know, some of it will be a bit weird.

The first one, bloodletting, practiced for over 3000 years. Bloodletting was based on a belief that removing blood could cure various ailments by balancing the body's humours. Okay, it persisted into the 19th century before being discredited.

Wow. Blimey. So this next one is, I don't know where I'm going to go.

Medical cannibalism. In Europe, from the 16th century to the early 20th century, remedies were made from human remains, such as powdered mummies, believed to treat conditions like, well, fresh human blood was also consumed, blah, blah, what really? It just shows you how, I don't want to say dumb. It seems dumb now.

I guess at the time it didn't seem dumb. But it shows you how behind, how unadvanced we were. But at the time, we were probably really advanced.

But when you think that some of these things were being done when planes had already been invented, you know, anyway, Vinnie, calm down or else I'm going to have to close the window. We'll have no air in here, will we? It sounds like someone's on the phone talking really, really loudly in one of the flats. Like really.

Oh, I don't need a phone. Just talk out the window. I'm sure your friend the other side of the world will hear you.

Tobacco smoke enemas. Oh, really? In the 18th century, tobacco smoke enemas were administered to resuscitate. Right, okay.

That's just weird. Mercury treatment. Mercury was historically used to treat ailments such as syphilis, despite its toxic effects.

Heroin as cough medicine. Cough medicine. In the late 19th and early 20th century, heroin was marketed as a non-addictive substitute for morphine and used in cough syrups before its addictive properties were recognized.

I have no words for that one. The next one is milk transfusions. In the late 19th century, milk was believed to be a suitable substitute for blood.

Leading to intravenous milk transfusions, which often, well, didn't go well. Milk transfusions. Wow.

Who? Who? Who? Trepanation. This is the next one. This ancient surgical procedure involved drilling holes.

Okay. This is a bit grim. I think I should change the subject because this is a bit.

Leech therapy. Leeches were commonly used in medieval medicine for bloodletting, believed to balance bodily humors. Uh, right.

All right. I'm gonna do another one. So if I find 100 trivia about.

We'll do a different subject. I'm gonna do a subject. Uh.

Clowns. Or should we do different subjects? Try to do inventions. I'm sure we did inventions in the past.

So. I'm gonna do computers about the internet. Find 100 here.

Okay. Right. Let's have a look.

Because this might be interesting. So I'm gonna find my trivia today is going to be. The internet.

So I'm gonna start off with. The origins. The message sent over Arpanet.

Arpanet, the precursor to the internet, was LO. The intention was to send login, but the system crashed after the first two letters. Ah.

The first website was created by Tim Berners-Lee. And it's still online and provides information about the World Wide Web. Because he created it, didn't he? Tim Berners-Lee.

And he's not even rich. Can you believe it? You'd think he'd be the richest person on the planet, but he's not. I think he just gave it away.

I think he might be wealthy, but he's not like. Well, you can imagine the inventor of the internet. How could that person? It's like if the inventor of the plane or the inventor of the car.

Was still alive, they'd be the richest person on the planet. If you know they just be. Because we're getting a percentage probably of every car that was made and every plane.

Whoever invented petrol. Or televisions or. Plastic.

Or cardboard or. Concrete. Or bras.

Or socks. I mean, those people would be worth a lot of money, I imagine. Email predates the World Wide Web.

Really? I didn't know that. The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson in 90. I just got this series like who do you send it to? Who did Ray send the first email to? If there is no World Wide Web.

So 1971 he was sent. It still hasn't arrived. Blimey.

I mean, really? Telex. Or fax machines. Telex machines or fax machines.

They were kind of like the precursors to. To email really. Yeah.

I'm thinking just go that so spams and namesake. The term spam for unsolicited emails comes from a Monty Python sketch. Where a cafe's menu is dominated by spam.

OK. Cool. I wonder if that's true.

By the way, some of this stuff may not be true. I'm not going to fact check because. I had to have fun out of it.

Some of it might be complete rubbish. So number five. The first search engine.

So the first search engine was Archie. Created in 1990. To index FTP sites.

OK. Not quite sure what that means. So Google's original name was Backrub.

Due to its analysis of backlinks. Backrub. Can you imagine that in a weird conversation? Having an argument, you know.

When was that? When was that song number one? It was number one. I think it was 1972. No, it's 1975.

Let's backrub it. The YouTube starts. YouTube began as a. Really? I did not know this.

YouTube began as a dating site. Before pivoting to video sharing. A dating site.

You wouldn't think it would like. I can't even see the similarities. Unless it was video dating, then, you know, I could see the similarities.

So the first video. Ever on YouTube. Was me at the zoo.

Uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim in 2005. Not me at the zoo. The title was me at the zoo.

Not Jason at the zoo. Me as an ME at the zoo. The next one is Facebook's face mesh.

Before Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg or Zuckerberg or Zuckerberg created face match face mesh. A site comparing students photos. And then you've got.

Number 10 Twitter's original purpose. Twitter was conceived as a platform for sharing status updates with friends. Yeah, I mean, isn't that what it's kind of supposed to be? I'm sorry, but now that's what it was, wasn't it? Just let people know how you are.

And it's turned into. I don't even know what it's turned into. It's very.

It's a strange place to visit. I don't go there very often. It's just not.

It doesn't feel like a safe space to be honest with you. Or X as it's now called. So first tweet.

Jack Dorsey sent the first tweet. Just setting up my Twitter. I'm imagining Jack Dorsey's one of the originators.

I'm guessing. Amazon's start. So I know this anyway.

I saw a documentary on Amazon man. So Amazon begun began as an online bookstore in Jeff Bezos's garage. Yeah, I saw a documentary on that.

And I think he wanted to have the biggest bookshop in the world. And then he wanted to have the biggest shop in the world, which he yes, he did succeed, didn't he? Well, let's face it. The first item sold on eBay.

A broken laser pointer was the first item sold on eBay. Why would anybody want to buy a broken anything? That is a question I would. Unless they didn't admit being broken and they didn't know it's broken until they received it.

And maybe it made the news. I don't know. So Wikipedia was created in just five days.

That's pretty good, isn't it? I'm not quite sure how they how to put together something like that. Still don't know how to use it. I know how to use it as a as a user.

But I don't know how to set up a profile and there's no profile of me on there. Yeah, first domain name. The first registered domain was Symbolics, not bollocks, Symbolics.com in 1985.

Symbolics.com. Okay, 1985. See, I don't know. I didn't even hear about the internet till about 97.

Never heard of it. It was some weird thing that they had in the comedy club and I could play on it. And I like just I didn't really get what it was all about.

And then 98 I got into a little bit more. Then 99 I got into it a little bit more. And then 2000 I really got into it because I started building websites.

But I just loved it. Just loved it. Those were the days when it was a novelty, wasn't it? The novelty.

So the first webcam, the first webcam monitored a coffee pot at Cambridge University. For what purpose? And you got the internet, the internet's weight, what? The internet's total weight is estimated to be about 50 grams, equivalent to a strawberry. How can the internet weigh anything? I mean, technically, if you could say what the internet weighs, it's all those wires, isn't it? All those billions of wires around the world.

So it's quite heavy. I would say more than one strawberry, at least seven. The first online purchase was a pizza bought online.

So a pizza. I still can't order a pizza online from where I live. I have to phone them up.

I have to phone Domino's up if I want a delivery. They won't do it online. They won't.

Fubareats collects from some places, but then you've got a huge, it's a lot more money to pay out. But Domino's, no. I don't understand.

It's like, well, you deliver here, clearly, because I phone you up and you deliver. I don't get pizzas very often. But you know, in the past when I have.

So surely I should be able to put my postcode in and get a pizza delivered. Because it says, oh, we don't deliver. We don't deliver to your address.

But you do deliver to my address. Oh, I've never been so angry. So email users, there are over 4 billion email users worldwide.

If by that, there's 4 billion email accounts. Yeah, there might be 4 billion email accounts. But how many of those are being used? I'd say probably about 2 billion.

There's a lot of email accounts that are not being used anymore. I pretty guarantee that one. Pretty, pretty do.

Approximately 306 billion emails are sent daily. You know, my doctor's surgery, right? They sent me a letter. I did talk about it the other day.

I put it through. I sent it to the bus pass company. I did it digitally this time.

Sort of took a photograph and everything. The next day, a message back saying, no, your information is incorrect. We can't give you a bus pass based on that.

So I phoned them up. And they said, no, it's not enough information. We need to know how the medication affects your driving.

And we need to have on the letter to say that your medication affects your, causes drowsiness and stuff. Which is what I always had on my letters over the last blimey 10, 11 years. But for some reason, the doctor chose to write a completely different letter instead of just copying out the old letter and putting a different date on, which would have been a lot easier.

So I had to contact the doctor. Two days taken me to get through to the doctor. I phoned them 68 times today, I think.

Seriously, it's really difficult to get through to them. And then when I did, the lady said, I explained it to her. I said, the, the bus pass people want me to send the new updated letter, if I can get one digitally.

So if you're able to email it to me, that'd be really good. And she said, no, not able to email anything because it's not secure. I've never had emails from banks.

I've had emails from lots of places, emails from credit cards. I've had emails from the, I've had emails from the doctors in the past. So I don't know what that's about.

Okay, so there's over 4.5 billion people using the internet. So what's the 7 billion people on the planet? That's quite a few people. And I don't believe that's true.

Really, if there's 7 billion people, at least 1 billion of those, at least probably two, let's say 2 billion of those would be kids, like little kids, babies and stuff. Okay, so at least 1 billion will be kids too young to use the internet. And 1 billion will be people too old to use the internet.

They just can't, are not able to use the internet. Or they don't want, you know, because they're really elderly and unwell or whatever. So that takes it down to 5.5. There's got to be a couple of billion people around the world that can't afford to have the internet because of where they live.

They live in the middle of nowhere. They live in a, in a, in the countryside. They live, you know, different places, parts of the world where the internet's not available.

So the idea that 4.5 out of 7 billion people use the internet, I don't, I don't think that's probably true. Statistically, I don't think that makes sense. I'm guessing, but I reckon it's more, more like 3 billion, 3.2. I don't know, I'm making it up.

So the dancing baby is considered the first viral internet meme. I don't know what meme means though. What is meme? Where did they come up with the word meme? Uh, so the first banner ad appeared in 1994.

Reading, have you ever clicked your mouse right here? Wow, I don't think that would work now. So Google is misspelling of Googol. Google is a misspelling of Googol, a term for the number one, followed by 100 zeros.

I don't even know what that means. They're just, okay. I mean, I thought Google was just like, because, you know, using your eyes.

It's all like Google, Google, Google, you know, maybe. So the first blog is attributed to Justin Hall in 1994. Do you remember when blogs were popular? Like the written blogs.

Wow, I actually had a blog. I think it was with Blogger and I shared it. I shared the RSS feed or shared the blog to loads of different blogging sites.

And I had quite a few people following me. And that was, believe me, that was like 2007, 2008 time. And I remember people asking me how my move was going, how the university course was going.

And it's just, wow, it's just such a long time ago. The first online sale was a Sting CD sold by Netmarket in 1994. Really blimey.

I thought I already said the first online sale was at an order was a pizza. Didn't I say that earlier? The first emoji was created in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita. Kurita.

Okay, so the first hashtag was used by Chris Messina in 2007. First hashtag. 2007.

So how did they know that that was gonna bring stuff up that I was saying? They must have, maybe it was just discovered by accident and you put a hashtag and something after it that search engines would pick it up. I don't know. First online game was called Mud One.

Again, 1978. There was no, well, was there an incident in 1978? I, it wasn't where I lived. 20 years later, yes, but 1978? I think we still had a black and white TV.

It was the first online multiplayer game. So I've got no idea how that was online and where it was available. I don't know.

So the first internet service provider, ISP, was The World. Launched in 1989. And the first online bank was Stanford Federal Credit Union.

And it offered online banking in 1994. So wherever this stuff was happening, that was well ahead of the UK. Well ahead.

I do, however, remember my, I had a friend who was dealing with broadband. And he was selling, I don't remember what it was called back then. But they were selling it to businesses.

He was trying to get businesses to buy it. Because it was so much faster than the dial-up. Very, very slow internet.

And his explanation to it, because I didn't understand it even then. And I used the internet. But his explanation was, it was, instead of driving down a little road.

It was like driving down a motorway. Just one car down the biggest, you know, going down the biggest motorway. Without any other traffic.

And my eyes would blaze over. In fact, he might have been doing that before the internet. He might have even been doing that before I even knew what internet was.

Possibly. I think he might have been doing that in 96. When I didn't know what the internet was.

It wasn't a thing. It might have been a thing with businesses. But it definitely wasn't an at-home thing.

Or maybe people had satellite dishes, maybe. I don't, I don't know. So the first online newspaper.

The San Jose Mercury News. And it went online in 1994. You know that the issue, well.

Newspapers, it's paywalls now. On so many newspapers. It's getting to the point where it's hard to even find out the news online.

Without going to like the BBC or one of those places. Because the local newspaper even. They'll give you the headline and then an advert will come up saying you have to pay for this.

It's local news. I thought it was a public service to offer the local news online. You know, the thing about the online one is it was never as thorough as the newspaper.

The newspaper would have like, I don't know, 30 pages, 40 pages or whatever. With adverts as well. Or 20, I don't know, however many pages the newspaper has every day.

And the website would just list some of the main things that were going on. But it wasn't, it's never like in depth. But now you can't even get the most basic news.

And a lot of the newspapers online are like that now, where they've just got a paywall. Apparently there is a way around it, but I wouldn't know what that was. So, Match.com launched in 1995.

And was the first online dating site. Did I ever tell... I used to be... Actually, it wasn't in my name, but... Or did I get it in my name? Not Playmate, that wasn't it. Dating... There was a dating magazine that I used to get in the 90s.

Date Mate, Mate Dating, Pape, Pape, ugh. I forget what it was called now. Blimey.

Penfriend, Penpal, Pendate, Date a Mate, Mate a Date, Make a Date. It was something, but it was like a little magazine. Quite thick, but it wasn't like big, it was, you know.

And it was black and white. And it'd just be adverts, people just advertising themselves. Like, you know, what they're looking for.

It'd be, quite often it'd be a picture, and where they were stationed, where they were living, and... Yeah, it was interesting. Penpal, no. Not Penpal.

Maybe it was Penpal. Mate Date, Datepal, Date, Mate, Mate. Sure was something, Mate.

Penmate, Mate Pen, Penthouse, no. I forget the name of it. But it was very interesting.

There were some funny, funny things in there. Just some of the, the adverts, or some of the profiles were just funny. Like worded funnily, and just funny to listen or to read.

So Match.com, Match.com was the first dating online site, launched in 95. Did I go on Match.com? I think I did. Is it still going? See, my problem is, I'm just physically repulsive.

I, that's probably the, how, the, yeah, the easier way to say it. I don't look good in a photograph. I look worse in real life, but I really don't look good in a photograph.

I can't pull a photograph off. Which is a weird thing to say out loud. But I, I've gone on to some of these dating sites.

What was the one? Plenty of gun, gang, um. Plenty of fish, that's it. Plenty of fish.

And so I posted my profile on there years ago. I'm talking blimey. A long time ago.

I've done it a few times. It's weeks ago. And bearing in mind, I was in my 30s.

And maybe I did it again in my early 40s. I was getting people way older than me. Like replying.

No one the same age, no one younger. All older. Like significantly older.

I'm talking like 103, 105. And see, I'm not ageist at all. I think I love, I love, but I like, I got a lot of respect for people.

Anyone that gets to be alive in their 90s and 100s. So it's nothing but respect for me. It's like, well done.

It's a huge accomplishment. And I don't necessarily makes me, doesn't make me horny though. No, not, I'm not a horny, I'm romantic.

That's what I meant. Romantic. So I wasn't really looking to be, you know, I was kind of looking for someone not really any older than me, possibly back then.

Let's say he's probably younger. 10 years. I don't know.

I mean, the females I've dated the last couple of decades. Sometimes I've been the same age, roughly. Sometimes I've been a bit younger.

That's it. When I was really younger, I used to date older women, loved older women. When I was in my 20s, I didn't want to date anyone under 60.

Honestly. Oh, oh, no, I did. I loved, um, yeah, I liked, maybe I was looking for a mummy.

Maybe that's what I was looking for without realizing it. Looking for a mother figure or something. But I just found more mature women easier to be around.

Just more like to talk to and to get spanked by. No, I'm joking about spanking. I'm joking about talking.

And I, yeah, just, I'm going to shut up now because I realize I think I've just I've gone into a different direction that I wanted to go into. But yeah, is it pen pal? Playmate, not playmate. It's always had the word mate in it.

Pen mate. Dating mate. Mate daters.

Date maters. Pacemakers. No, pacemakers.

Date makers. But just trying to think what this magazine was called. It's just still the funniest thing.

You might not even find this funny at all. But still one of the funniest things I've ever seen, like in the moment, was this advert in this magazine, which was specifically looking for love. Really, that's what it was for.

It was looking for love, looking for people adverts in there because I wanted to meet someone special. That's what it was all about. It wasn't weird.

It wasn't anything, you know, strange. Anyway, the, there's nothing strange for not wanting that anyway, or just, but to say it, it was for quite a serious magazine. And it was a, it was a dating magazine.

That's what I'm trying to say. So the funniest advert or profile thing I ever saw was there was this, I still remember isn't that, I still remember the picture of him. Still remember the picture of him because he was standing there and he had, I think, four kids with him and he had this big mustache.

Big, big mustache. I mean, it was big. It was a big mustache.

And he had, I don't know, three, four kids. And the person, right, and I've talked about this before, but, and this is true. I'm not making this up just to be, you know, I've got an itchy bum.

Hey, hey, come on. Hey, calm down. He gets so uppity.

He's such a little moaner. You know, any little change in environment and he's like, calm down. Don't worry, I'm not going to put you in a bath.

Do you want a bath? So this article was being written from the perspective of one of his daughters, who is probably eight, eight or nine, eight or whatever. Yeah. And it started off, me and my daddy, me and my brothers and sisters and my daddy lost their mummy two years ago.

So that's a really sad start of it. You know, lost her. She, she left us or something.

I think it was. Yeah, she left us. So we would like to meet.

We'd like a new mummy. So there's this little girl talking. So it's not a bloke, it's a little girl.

So we would really, I'd really like to have a, a new mummy for me and my two brothers and for my daddy. My daddy's been looking after us. He does everything, but it's about, we, I think it's time that he had someone to love him.

And he's got so much love to give. He's a lovely daddy. And it sort of said a description, what they're looking for.

So it doesn't matter, not, not worried about height, not really bothered about age, anything like that. Just someone that's loving. Someone that's got love in their heart to, able to love us and be our new mummy and be my dad's new wife.

And then right at the end, it said. Must be at least double D cup. It's true.

It's true. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life. And this was like 1995.

I still remember it today. All that like heartfelt stuff. And then right at the end, must be at least a double D cup size.

And it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen. If you, I know maybe it's not funny now, but. If you get yourself into that position, you read in a serious magazine.

And there's this little girl talking, you know, I need a new mummy. And because obviously it's him sending it in, isn't it? And him writing it. But from her perspective, it's just, yeah, it's very funny.

I found it funny. I still do. I still do.

It's one of those things, there's a few things in my life that I found funny. That I still, when I think about it. I think I've been bitten on the bum.

I still do think about it. When I think about it, it still makes me laugh. So I worked with someone called Terry.

And he went, he went off to have a break. So I'm just carrying on doing what I'm doing. And Andre, the original Andre, was the supervisor.

He was the boss, the team leader, or whatever you want to call it. And I was waiting for him because I needed to ask him something like work related. So Terry comes back in and I said, have you seen Andre? And Terry looked at me, he said, yeah, I just passed him in the toilet.

Now, for some reason, I could not stop laughing at that. The idea of him just pulling Andre out. I passed him in the toilet.

It, it just was the most ridiculously hilarious thing. And probably really, really childish. But still, it made me laugh.

It proper made me laugh. Another one is a few things. One, it was at my auntie's funeral.

Obviously not a funny event, obviously. And it was as you know, it wasn't a nice experience, of course. So we go outside the church at the afterwards.

And we're looking at the flowers arranged on the floor outside. The church and I'm standing there with my other auntie and her husband. Okay.

This lady comes up and calls and said, oh, hello, and calls my auntie by the name of the one we just buried by mistake, obviously. But I had to walk away. I was in hysterics laughing because it was so inappropriate.

And it was a mistake. It was just a, you know, an easy error to make, I guess. But I found it hilarious.

And maybe I was just waiting. I needed something to laugh at. And it's a long time ago.

I was 17 at the time. I just remember it. And it's like, it was one of those weird moments.

I'm trying to think there's any other really strange times when I've laughed when I shouldn't have done. Well, not shouldn't have done. There's something that made me laugh.

I mean, because, you know, if something makes you laugh, it makes you laugh, regardless of what the situation is. And try to think. I can't think of anything offhand.

No. Trying to go through my life. It's warm in here.

The wind is open, but it's starting to get a bit warm because the doors closed. The heating must be on. No, I can't think of anything else.

There are others. I'm going to I've got a book and I think I'm going to start writing memories down in it. All part of me moving towards doing my life story.

For three people that might want to read it. The first online auction was called on sale.com launched in 1995. Okay.

The first online payment was virtual. No. First virtual.

1994. First online payment. Yeah.

Well. Again, all before I'd even heard of the Internet. The first online music store was launched in 94 called CD now.

The first I remember that I think I think I remember CD now. It was about for a while. I think I might be lying.

The first online video was a clip of a band called severe tire damage in 1993. This trivia stuff is stuff and before I even knew what the Internet was. Before this country really knew what it was, I would argue.

Internet talk radio launched in 93. It's the first online radio station. Internet talk radio.

Some of this stuff sounds familiar. The spot launched in 95. It was the first online TV show.

The first online movie was called wax of this. Wax or the discovery of television among the bees. Really? 93.

Books.com was the first online bookstore launched in 92. What if books.com still around? The first online grocery store was called peapod launched in 89. And drugstore.com launched in 99 was the first online pharmacy.

Travel lossity 96 was the first online travel agency. And the first online stock trading e-trade launched in 92. It was the first stock trading platform.

In 99 Sotheby's launched the first online auction house. Ah. Well, I'm getting uncomfortable.

I'm going to have to reseat myself. Right. The first internet cafe.

Was called Siberia. Opened in London in 1994. Where was I? I was in London.

Where was I when the Internet was starting then? Because I didn't even know about it until 97. Why didn't I discover it until 97? If it was around in 94. That's really weird.

I'm confused. And they used to be. I don't know if anyone can remember the 90s.

The late 90s and. Well, let's say like late 90s. The amount of cyber cafes that there were.

Like so many. So many. Especially, you know, in the West End.

In London, because I didn't live anywhere else. I lived in London in the 90s. Throughout the whole of the 90s.

So I, I remember down. Was it Oxford Street or was it Tottenham Court Road? I think it was Oxford Street. There was loads of these cyber cafe things.

And even up the road from where I lived in Leighton Stone. Or Leighton, maybe it was Leighton Stone. There was a cyber cafe, which was actually government funded.

I used it during the day, but got busy when the kids left school. So I got out of there before then. But during the day, it was pretty quiet.

So I used to go in there. And just. Search, just have a look.

And discover all the wonders of the Internet. It was just, you know. You get coffee, tea, cans of Coke and stuff like that.

Maybe cakes. I can't remember. And I just be fascinated by this, by this stuff.

Really just absolutely amazed by it. So. Google.

Amazon's one click patent. Amazon held a patent for the one click checkout button from 99 to 2007. OK.

Wonder what happened in 2007. No, 2017. Google's Doodle origins.

The first Google Doodle was a tribute to the Burning Man Festival in 1998. The first e-commerce transaction. I can't even read today.

The first e-commerce transaction was. A cannabis sale between students at MIT and Stanford in 1971. Again, I don't understand how that worked in the 70s.

OK, I don't. The first known cat video was posted in 2005, sparking an Internet wide trend. Oh, yes, I think we can all agree that that happened.

No, this cat videos. Amazon was nearly called Cadabra as a nod to Agra, Abra, Cadabra. I'm pretty sure it was called Cadabra.

Or Abra Cadabra. I'm pretty sure that was the name of it when it first started. Just have a vague memory.

And then they changed it to Amazon. That's my memory, whether it's real or not. Face, I remember being slim doesn't mean it happened.

Facebook's color choice. It's blue because Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg is red, green colorblind. That's because he's a robot.

He's an Android. Insta's quick growth. Instagram gained one million users within two months of launching.

One million users. Blimey, that's pretty quick, isn't it? Pinterest's Pinterest's original purpose was initially a shopping app called Tote. I still don't know what Pinterest is for.

MySpace wasn't first. See, Friendster, not MySpace, was the first big social networking site. I knew that.

But Friendster was more, it seemed a little bit more datey, a bit more kind of, you know, I was on Friendster. I was on all of them. I was on every single social media networking site that was around in the 2000s, like 2006 onwards, really.

Every single one that there was. Everyone. There wasn't one I wasn't on.

Pizza Hut. Internet's first pet celebrity was Grumpy the Cat, who became a sensation in 2012. In 1994, Pizza Hut was one of the first brands to offer online ordering.

Again, where was I when this was happening? That's 94, 2004, 2014, 2024, 30 years. I still can't get online pizzas. Wow.

Netflix launched as a DVD rental by mail service in 97. I wonder when it started as a streaming service. So I don't really remember it before 2012.

That's when I kind of really, I think that's the first time I really, is it? Yeah, I think 2012 was the first time. And I did, I got a trial on it, a free trial, and my internet was so rubbish. I couldn't even stream Netflix, which needs about five megabytes a second.

Or four megabytes, like really needs a low amount. And I couldn't even stream. That's how rubbish my internet was.

Amazon logo meaning. The Amazon's logo arrow points from A to Z, symbolizing they sell everything. Oh, okay.

Early tweets on Twitter were limited to 140 characters to fit within SMS text limits. Ah, I guess that's what Twitter was, wasn't it? It was texting for everybody. Kind of making your texts public.

Wikipedia's first entry. The first article on Wikipedia was about the letter U. And they managed to last this long. Google's servers low tech start.

So early Google servers were stored in a custom case made from Lego bricks. I wonder if that's true. That is funny.

So Hamsterdance, a 1998 website of dancing hamsters, is considered the first viral internet hit. So Craigslist began as a San Francisco event email list in 1995. I never really understood the Craigslist.

I kind of understand it, but it's classified ad page kind of. It's like a classified ads for online, isn't it? And we never, we do have it here, but never reached the level of popularity that it had in other countries. The term troll for internet troublemakers originated from a fishing slang where trolling means luring in a catch.

Okay, Photoshop was developed in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll, and originally called display. Photoshop. I mean, it's almost got its own, you know, they photoshopped it.

That's become a term, isn't it? Over the years. I don't know if it's still around. Is Photoshop still around? Internet's archives birth.

The internet archive began in 96, aimed to archive the entire internet. I mean, there are early versions of my website from 20 years ago, which is weird to look at, but only doesn't, it doesn't save it. Every single version.

It just is a few, a few, I suppose, screen, screen saves. You can just have a look. First live stream concert was a Rolling Stones in 94.

So I guess that's why they released the Rolling Stones onto every new, was it every new iPhone? What was it? They did that a few years ago, and a lot of people were annoyed because they didn't want the album and it was almost forced upon people. Was it Apple music or was it Spotify or I forget who it is, but it was like, well, maybe it was a phone.

Yeah, I remember there was a bit of a backlash over it.

Google's yearly pranks. Google is known for celebrating April Fool's Day pranks, like Google Gulp, a fictitious smart drink. Wow.

The longest URL, which is the, you know, website address, was created over 2000 characters. Okay, it was an experiment, experiment by Microsoft, 2000 characters. Google consistently, consistently ranks as the world's most visited website.

Yeah, I've kind of figured that would be, is, I think that will change in the future. It's going to change, I reckon. Easter eggs in code.

Programmers often hide Easter eggs in their code as jokes or hidden messages. I never really understood why it's called an Easter egg. So they hide something like a hidden message.

Why is it called an Easter egg? I don't really get that. Because Easter eggs are made of chocolate and you eat them. Although Easter eggs do, they used to have treats and stuff, didn't they, inside, I think.

I can't remember. It's a long time ago. The term meme was coined by, oh, I was asking this question earlier, wasn't I? The term meme was coined by biologist Richard Dawkins in 76, long before the internet.

Cristiano. Okay, wait a second. Just the Cristiano.

Blimey, it's just taken me out of the page. Where are you? Where are you? Bring me back. Oh, there we are.

Cristiano Ronaldo holds one of the most liked pages on Facebook. It's really stuffy in here. Most downloaded app, TikTok.

Google Earth covers about 98% of the world's population in satellite imagery. Wow. Wikipedia's funniest vandalism.

Some Wikipedia entries include prank edits like defining unicorns as real animals. This is interesting. South Korea has some of the world's fastest internet speeds.

The first comment on YouTube simply said, interesting. At least it didn't say first. What's that about? Have you ever seen that? People post, I've had that on my YouTube channel.

I've had it where people have posted first on a YouTube video. And I'd like, why? Is that like a, where did that come from? If it started happening 12, 13 years ago, 14 years ago. I remember it was happening on YouTube, but people still doing it.

I was like, I don't really know why. Anyway, so I'm coughing a bit here, so I'm going to, I'm going to go. So thank you for listening.

I hope that's been relatively mildly interesting. Oh, did you know that Twitter's mascot is named Larry the bird after Larry Bird, the NBA player. The oldest known Rick roll.

We'll finish with this one. The oldest, the internet's first Rick roll prank happened around 2007. Oh, so that's a, if you don't know what a Rick roll is, it's basically.

A video that looks like it's one thing, like a serious video or whatever, and then moves into. Rick Astley singing, never going to give you up. They were going to let you down that.

So they called that a Rick roll. So you never, you click on a, you didn't know what you were going to watch. You thought you were watching a serious YouTube video on.

Ice cream, the invention of ice cream or something. And Rick Astley comes on to start singing. Yeah, that's a Rick roll.

I do wonder if Rick Astley is more famous now since then than he was before. Cause he was famous in the UK for a while. I mean, he was the most famous.

He was the biggest star in the country for a while. And he had, he had some hits in America. I know, but that was like the late eighties.

So in 2007, when that all started happening, did his, did his album sales go up? I don't know. Oh, you don't know. I remember Ricky, Ricky Astley.

I didn't like his songs particularly. The never going to give me up forever and ever and ever. We find forever and ever you.

However, when I heard him sing live, he sung, um, was it hold me in your arms? The dude that was really, I really liked that one. Like balance. And he also did a Christmas song.

I will always love it when I fall in love with that one. Really, really good voice. So I liked that.

I was, I was a fan of that. I didn't, I don't know if it was because it was so popular, all the other stuff. And it was almost, you couldn't get away from it.

Especially I worked in a shop. I worked places where there was music being played. The radio has been played all day.

And I started, I want to hear Rick Astley anymore. Or Jason Donovan or Carly Minogue. It's just, it got a little bit, bit too much.

It was, it was just like nonstop. It's like any, every member of Home and Away or Neighbours. Seemed to have a record contract at that time.

And we, you know, Carly Minogue was the first one to do it. She was already a big star. She already, um, did the locomotion.

She'd already released that in, in Australia. And everyone else kind of followed her. And that's Stock Aitken and Waterman.

They ruled the roost. For years, they ruled the roost. Thank you for listening.

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