3 episodes
Who Did It First? Who Did It First
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- Society & Culture
Have you ever wondered who the first woman was to win the Nobel Prize? What about the first athlete to say "I'm going to Disney World" after a Super Bowl Victory?
And why on Earth do these things stick around after they've been done once?
Join ME on a journey to discover that there's a first for everything, and how it all snowballs into virality.
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What Was the First Website?
Have you ever wondered when the W3 even started, and what the very first web page was?
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The first person to say "I'm going to Disneyland!"
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Who Was the First Superhero?
Who was the first superhero?
Hugo Hercules: ever heard of him? Neither had we.
HUGO WAS THE creation of a 23-year-old Tribune artist named Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Körner
Hugo Hercules was created in 1902. He boasts superhuman strength and a heart of gold.
What did he do?
Saving damsels in distress; lifting an elephant; debunking armed robbers.
For 5 short months, anyway. Apparently, America’s readers weren’t ready for a hand-drawn, super-powered individual in 1902. They would be three decades later, after World War I and the Great Depression created a need for escapism. But by the time the U.S. comic book industry was born, in 1933, Hugo Hercules was long gone.
WHETHER HE WAS stopping a speeding trolly car with his bare hands, or wielding a full-size cannon as though it were a pistol, the friendly colossus known as Hugo Hercules was pulling off superhero-type feats long before anybody even thought to use the word.