I have been a technology writer and editor for more than 20 years. I was assistant editor of The Sunday Times’ technology section, editor of PC Pro magazine and have written for more than a dozen different publications and websites over the years.
Do you know what the first item bought off Amazon was? Or the first MP3? Do you know what the first webcam showed? All of these artifacts of internet history are brilliantly captured in a new interactive museum of the internet.is the wonderful creation of coder Neal Agarwal. It skims through internet history in chronological order with a series of exhibits that do more than you might first think.
The watched coffee pot eventually became something of an internet sensation, with millions of people viewing the webcam, despite the fact its grainy footage was only delivered at a rate of three frames per second.Another choice exhibit in the Internet Artifacts museum is what’s claimed to be the first ever MP3 from as far back as 1987. This was an a capella version of Tom’s Diner, sung by Suzanne Vega.
Fancy a trip down gaming’s memory lane? The museum include’s an early example of a Flash game written by my former IT journalist colleague David McCandless. The Helicopter Game, released in 2002, is a horribly addictive side-scrolling game similar to the later Flappy Bird, where you have to dodge obstacles by flying the helicopter up and down by pressing and releasing the mouse button.
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