Twitter was launched five years ago with the simple message "I twttr setting." Similarly, many technological advances have not come to light with a fanfare of trumpets, but with a few modest words.
"Okay, here we are in front of the elephants."
And so with great humility, spoke the first words on YouTube, in his first video posted in April 2005.
click Me at the Zoo (I at the zoo) shows the co-founder Jawed Karim in the San Diego Zoo. And yes, in front of the elephants.
Six years and billions of page views, then YouTube has become part of the landscape of media, used by Queen Elizabeth, the world leaders and pet owners who do strange things.
KarimIf I had known then what would become big business, maybe would have given that first video a bit more sense for the occasion. Or maybe not. After all, every new phenomenon has to start somewhere.
Happy Birthday, Twitter
The first words uttered on YouTube in the first video released in April 2005.
And now, Twitter's first foray into the world of 140 characters is being remembered in the celebration of its fifth birthday.
On March 21, 2006, an automated message from founder Jack Dorsey told click "configuring my twttr" , then the first tweet made by a human was published when he wrote the words click "inviting my co-workers" and hit send.
Whereas the two preceding tweets billions more, it is a startup that went almost unnoticed.
Something like taking the first steps in a new and exciting world, but instead of making a dramatic entrance, slipping out the back door. Big little early
A great phone call from a high-Cooper in 1973 and now.
older technologies, began in similar fashion.
Martin Cooper is credited with making the first call of the world from a truly portable mobile phone, from a sidewalk in New York on April 3, 1973.
In a speech this week, the man remembered the time as research director for 45 years at the helm of Motorola, made the historic call using a prototype Dyna-Tac.
While journalists were present, not recorded.
"I called Joel Engel, who was my opponent, my counterpart in AT & T, which at that time was the largest company world. We were a small company in Chicago. They felt we were a flea on an elephant.
"I said" Joel, I'm Marty. I'm calling from a cell phone, a true handheld mobile phone, laptop. "There was silence at the other end. I suspect he was grinding his teeth."
The conversation was very brief, "said Cooper, now CEO of ArrayComm.
How long, Cooper turned it over to those words? Apparently, not much.
"It was spontaneous. I was talking to a reporter trying to think of something clever to say, as I am now, so I did. It was just that," he said.
... at the time was not to create a revolution, despite what happened. It was to stop AT & T "
Martin Cooper, on the first mobile phone call
" You never know when you will do something, that would be the momentous occasion turned out to be. The question at the time was not to create a revolution, despite what happened. It was AT & T stop, "said Cooper.
Above all, he says, what he was hoping is that the call works.
And after that brief exchange of words emergence of a new telecommunications sector worldwide, with a wide range of mobile phone technology continue to shape our way of life.
hundred years before Cooper made history, Alexander Graham Bell tested his new invention: the telephone, calling his assistant in the next room.
"Watson, come here. I want to see," were his first words.
In the UK the first fixed telephone call without operator assistance, was made in 1958. The queen began the call by saying: "I am the Queen calling from Bristol. Good afternoon, Mr. Rector."
QWERTYUIOP Between Armstrong and
THROUGH THIS SAY ...
- Telegram, 1844: "What hath God wrought?"
- Telephone, 1876: "Watson, come here. I want to see .."
- wireless communication at sea, 1897: "Are you ready?"
- Lunar Landing, 1969: "It's a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" E-mail
- 1971: QWERTYUIOP [likely]
- SMS, 1992: "Merry Christmas" Google
- , 1996 : there is no record of the first search
- Facebook, 2004: no record of the first post YouTube
- , 2005: video "Yo the zoo, "the first words:" Okay, here we are in front of the elephants " Twitter
- , 2006:" configuring my twttr "
Eleven years later, Neil Armstrong uttered some of the famous words (and hotly debated) when they first human steps on the surface of the Moon:
"It's a small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
These words become a benchmark, the speechwriter says Max Atkinson, because they have withstood time as well. One of the rules of a great line is to make a comparison, Armstrong did wonderfully.
But probably there was some suggestion from NASA on what the first man on the moon would mean, says Atkinson. Launch a punto.com
is different and only with the perspective we realize the super-successful online ideas began with two audiences: those who are in time and history.
would be a mistake, says Atkinson, think too much about history. That's why the words spoken at the launch of many technologies, mundane as they are, should be admired for its refreshing modesty.
The first e-mail is an example.
is believed that the computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent him in 1971, from one computer to another in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Test messages are to forget, he said. "Most likely the first message was QWERTYUIOP or something similar." Expectations
moderate
Pioneers were not thinking about the success or write something elegant and meaningful.
This shows how much the world has changed its expectations to initiate such projects, which are too high, says Paul Armstrong, director of social media at Mindshare.
"The world is now moving much faster than when the events occurred in 1969 and, despite that are monumental in retrospect, when they do not know whether to be a success or a failure.
"When you are setting up something, you do not know where to go and the success depends on many things. For every one that we hear, there are thousands more who do not have a capitalist enterprise support."
pioneers, some of the big names now, they were not thinking about the success or write something elegant and meaningful, he says.
"They're very focused on set something up and running.'s Why we do not see deep things."
So if the destination is all that matters, not the first steps, perhaps the site of elephants is not a bad place to start.
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