The Ongoing History Book of Firsts

Published: July 7, 2022, 2:59 a.m.

I started thinking about \u201cfirsts\u201d the other day, so I started looking things up\u2026the first McDonald\u2019s was in san Bernardino, California\u2026the first guy to literally walk around the world on foot was Dave Kunist\u2026it took him four years to walk 14,452 miles \u2026the first person to be killed in an automobile accident was Bridget Driscoll of Surrey, England\u2026in 1896, she was hit by a car traveling at 4 miles per hour\u2026the first porn film?...\u201dBedtime For The Bride,\u201d 1895\u2026\nWe can get weirder\u2026the first thing ever sold on ebay was a broken laser pointer for $14\u2026the first video on YouTube is still up there\u2026it\u2019s called \u201cMe At The Zoo\u201d\u2026the first person with a Facebook account outside the company who wasn\u2019t a friend of Mark Zuckerberg was a guy from India named Sachine Kumar\u2026\nThe more I looked at famous firsts, the more I started wondering about firsts in music\u2026.\nWho was the first person to perform on a guitar run through an amplifier?...the first song downloaded from iTunes?...who was the first to drop an intentional f-bomb on record?...what was the first song to fade out instead of having a definite ending?...\nYou see where I\u2019m going with this, right?...I started compiling a list of \u201cfirsts\u201d in music\u2014and then I set out to find some answers\u2026which I did\u2026prepare yourself\u2026this could be the first time you hear about this stuff\u2026\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices