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The first six TED Talks were posted on June 27, 2006
They are: Al Gore’s “Averting the climate crisis,” Hans Rosling’s “The best stats you’ve ever seen,” Majora Carter’s “Greening the ghetto,” Sir Ken Robinson’s “Do schools kill creativity?,” David Pogue’s “Simplicity sells,” and Tony Robbins’ “Why we do what we do.” THE FIRST 6 TED TALKS -
First Ted Talk to a million views.
Jeff Han’s “The radical promise of the multi-touch interface,” posted on August 1, 2006. It was our 15th talk, posted almost a year before the launch of the iPhone. talk -
The 20th talk posted on TED.com
Richard Baraniuk’s “The birth of the open-source learning revolution,” posted on August 21, 2006 http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning -
The 100th talk posted on TED.com
was then-Wired editor Chris Anderson’s “Technology’s long tail,” on April 26, 2007 talk -
The first TEDx talk posted on TED.com
Jane Poynter’s “Life in Biosphere 2,” posted on June 15, 2009 talk -
The 1,000th talk posted on TED.com
Lucianne Walkowicz’s, “Finding planets around other stars,” posted on August 11, 2011 link -
The first TED Talk in a language other than English
Sarah Kaminsky’s “My father the forger,” published on September 7, 2011 talk -
The first TED Talk to 10 million views
Sir Ken Robinson’s “Do schools kill creativity?,” which crossed the threshold at some point between 2012 and 2013. His was also the first talk to 20 million views. talk -
The fastest TED Talk to storm into our most-popular list
Amy Cuddy’s “Your body language shapes who you are,” posted on October 1, 2012. It was the 1,346th talk posted on TED.com and is now the second most-watched after Robinson’s talk. -
