The date when this was created isn't, and will probably never be, known, but scientist and historians are not concerned because they don't care about meaningless things like this. But there is knowledge of how it probably got started. The word meaning of first means to get there, to write, to say, to spell, etc before anyone else does. When the internet came out, it was copied from the real world to the digital world. When sites like Youtube came out with comment boxes, people decided to have contest to see who got their comment first on that particular video. Many people around the world caught up to the trend and began doing it. However, over the years it, like many internet memes, had worn down; possibly do to the fact that it has been overused. People make a big deal about it, and brag