7. URL be glad they did
June 23, 1983: The domain name system is born.Thank Paul Mockapetris, Craig Partridge, and the late Jon Postel for the fact that you didn’t have to type 70.42.185.10 to get here. Together they created the domain naming system, replacing numerical Internet addresses with English-language “domains” and introducing the nongeek world to joys of the backslash key.
Instead of having to memorize a 12-digit number for every host they wanted to visit, users could simply type the machine’s name and domain. Servers set up across the network would then translate the words into numbers.
On that June day 24 years ago, a DNS packet first crossed the network and elicited a response, Mockapetris reports in an e-mail note. “That’s my best estimate,” he adds. “Nobody thought it was important, so no cameras were present or plaques made.”
Back then–eight years before the introduction of the World Wide Web–a few hundred machines were connected to the Net. Today more than 130 million are. Without an easy-to-use naming scheme, the Web as we know it would not exist.
I know I’m thankful, very thankful. If it was up to me, they would be #1, every day of the week 
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Cracks me up that a “tech” writer thinks URLs have backslashes in them, though
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Good catch !