Was Symbolics.com one of the first registered domains?
Yes. Internet history sources identify Symbolics.com as the first registered .com domain in 1985.
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Was a real moth found in an early computer?
Yes. The Smithsonian preserves the famous 1947 log page with a moth from the Harvard Mark II.
Is email older than the World Wide Web?
Yes. Networked email predates the Web by many years.
Does GPS need relativity to stay accurate?
Yes. Relativistic effects are part of keeping satellite navigation timing accurate.
Does most international internet traffic travel under the sea?
Yes. Submarine fiber-optic cables are the backbone of global internet traffic.
Was the QR code invented in the 1990s?
Yes. DENSO Wave says it developed the QR Code in 1994.
Can you still visit a copy of the first website?
Yes. CERN maintains material about the birth of the World Wide Web and its first site.