26 years ago to the date Scott Fahlman posted the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University:

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:
: – )

Fahlman says he came up with the idea after reading “lengthy diatribes” from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post.

With that post suggesting funny emails be marked out, Fahlman became the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon. Today the emotion+icon combination has spawned a thousand others and rarely is an online conversation complete without one.

Back in 1992, some folks at CERN decided to put scanned photos of “the CERN girls” in some sort of “information system” the guys had just invented and were calling the “World Wide Web”.

When they posted this image online they couldn’t have imagined that pictures of women – in far lesser clothes eventually – would be an incredibly powerful and possibly the biggest driver of the internet for the next decade!

Meet the guy who started it all…

Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe the list of
links on his Robot Wisdom website that “logged” his internet
surfing.

In the decade since then, blogs have come to dominate the
net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news
sections of the august The New York Times.

There are more than 100 million active blogs, according to
Technorati – a monumental leap forward from the relative handful
of geeks posting online just a few years back. And things just
look as bright for the future of blogs.

 John carpenter was the first millionaire ever on popular show who wants to be millionaire.During the whole show he was cool as hell.He didnt used any of his lifeline untill the last question in which he called his father to tell him that he is millionaire now.Whether the questions were easy or not but full marks to his confidence and calmness.

A must watch video.

For complete show(all 15 questions) click here