Aaron Collins died last week in Lexington, Kentucky at age 30. He didn’t have any money to leave his family, but he left them a last request in his will. (–As of now, there are no reports on how Aaron died.)

Aaron wanted them to all go out to eat together and, quote, “leave an awesome tip . . . and I don’t mean 25 percent. I mean $500 on [an effing] pizza.”

The family created a website called aaroncollins.org and collected online donations to raise the money. On Wednesday, they met at Puccini’s Smiling Teeth in Lexington for lunch.

They ate their pizza, and at the end of the meal, they gave the waitress a stack of cash. She fought back tears, asked what the guy’s name was, and shared the giant tip with the kitchen. (–Two very classy moves by the waitress.)

The family has already gotten ANOTHER $500 in online donations . . . so they’re going to do it again. They say they’ll keep the site up and do it every time they hit $500.

(Gawker)

It’s difficult to make demands at gunpoint and have them work when your demands THEMSELVES prove you aren’t a threat to shoot anyone.

Last week, 24-year-old Rodney Gene Lewis of Winter Haven, Florida was drunk outside a Walmart . . . then barged into the store waving around his gun. He walked up to the sporting goods department and demanded . . . BULLETS.

That kinda tipped off the employees that his gun wasn’t loaded and he wasn’t really a threat to shoot them if they didn’t give him those bullets. So they refused, under their policy not to sell ammo to someone when the weapon is present.

Then, they called the cops. Rodney started arguing and SCREAMING about how the cops were going to take away his ‘First’ Amendment right to carry his gun.

He meant the Second Amendment . . . although I guess the First Amendment DOES give him the right to YELL about the gun, so he wasn’t totally wrong.

He was arrested on several charges, including improperly exhibiting a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, and disorderly intoxication.

(Tampa Bay Online)

It’s been 20 years since the first photo was posted on the Internet, so it’s making the rounds again. And the photo is RIDICULOUS.

The founder of the World Wide Web is a guy named Tim Berners-Lee from CERN, a physics laboratory in Switzerland. He had a friend scan some photos from a party they’d just had, and upload one of four women in dresses that are VERY early ’90s.

Here are eight more “firsts” in Internet history for ya . . .

The first email was sent by a programmer named Ray Tomlinson in 1971.  He made the decision to use the “at” symbol as part of email addresses . . . and sent an email explaining to his coworkers how to use email.

The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer that belonged to the founder of the site, PIERRE OMIDYAR.  He sold it in September of 1995 for $14.

The first tweet was sent by Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of Twitter.  On March 21st, 2006, he wrote, quote, “just setting up my twttr.”  No capitalization, spelling, or punctuation . . . in other words, a perfect tweet.

The first domain name was Symbolics.com, and was registered by a computer manufacturing company called Symbolics on March 15th, 1985.  That company no longer exists . . . the domain now shows an infographic about web history.

The first YouTube video was posted on April 23rd, 2005 by YouTube’s forgotten founder, Jawed Karim.  It’s a pointless 19-second video of him at the zoo.

 

The first search engine was called Archie and was made by a student in Montreal in 1990. It’s actually still up, but it only lets you search Polish websites.

The first Facebook user was, obviously, MARK ZUCKERBERG. The second was one of his roommates and co-founders, Chris Hughes.

The first porno website is harder to trace . . . but it’s believed to be sex.com, which was created in the mid ’80s.

(11 Points / Fox News / Silicon India)