user47061: I'm trying to wrap my head around bitcoin/blockchain and from what I understand, every transaction that has taken place in bitcoin is placed into a block and after this block is validated it is added to the block chain in chronological order.  
Is there some place that I could go to look at the first block of transactions for bitcoin?  Or any random block of transactions?  
If anything I have said above indicates that I have misunderstood some part of the process - please don't hesitate to correct me.

user3249: The easiest way to look at the transactions in any arbitrary block would be with a block explorer. 
As of the instant I'm answering this question, the newest block is block #456238, so you can peek at any block by creating an address for a web block explorer as follows (Blockchain.info for illustrative purposes):
https://blockchain.info/block-height/0
https://blockchain.info/block-height/456238

47061: <p>I'm trying to wrap my head around bitcoin/blockchain and from what I understand, every transaction that has taken place in bitcoin is placed into a block and after this block is validated it is added to the block chain in chronological order.  </p>

<p>Is there some place that I could go to look at the first block of transactions for bitcoin?  Or any random block of transactions?  </p>

<p>If anything I have said above indicates that I have misunderstood some part of the process - please don't hesitate to correct me.</p>
 3249: <p>The easiest way to look at the transactions in any arbitrary block would be with a block explorer. </p>

<p>As of the instant I'm answering this question, the newest block is block #456238, so you can peek at any block by creating an address for a web block explorer as follows (Blockchain.info for illustrative purposes):</p>

<p><a href="https://blockchain.info/block-height/0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blockchain.info/block-height/0</a></p>

<p><a href="https://blockchain.info/block-height/456238" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blockchain.info/block-height/456238</a></p>
