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The First 100 Dot Coms Ever Registered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bet-mine-isn't-in-there dept.

roman1 submitted an interesting list containing the first 100 .com domains registered. Many of the names you haven't heard of, many you have. What was interesting to me is that it took 2 years just to get 100 domains on-line.

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  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What was interesting to me is that it took 2 years just to get 100 domains on-line. Why is that interesting? I'm not even sure if this 'internet' thing is going to catch on ...
    1. Re:Why? by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

      I noticed StarGate, and of course also the first ever (rather poorly spelled) porn site - siemens.com! Those guys obviously had great vision for the future, and from their lowly porn business beginnings, they must have managed to start a decent electronics company!

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      which is totally what she said
    2. Re:Why? by fatmal · · Score: 2, Funny

      Could be an urban legend, but I'd heard that a U.K. branch of Siemens got in trouble with the German head office people for not answering the phone correctly. The company 'standard' was "Siemens Berlin" for the berlin office - "Siemens Singapore" for Singapore etc.

      The branch office that got in trouble for not answering their phones correctly - Staines

  2. Re:Symbolics ... by djones101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where's the Windows key? *ducks the inevitable smack*

  3. Re:I remember when.... by Selfbain · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know the problem with people who have been around technology for a long time is when they go senile, their babble will change but most people probably won't be able to tell the difference.

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    Well, it has never been successfully tested.
  4. What? by DurendalMac · · Score: 3, Funny

    No ASCIIPORN.COM?

  5. Where's the last bunch? by cerberusss · · Score: 4, Funny

    This 'first 100 .com' stuff is all nice and dandy, but what I want to see is the LAST one hundred .com domains.

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    8 of 13 people found this answer helpful. Did you?
    1. Re:Where's the last bunch? by NoSuchGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

      but what I want to see is the LAST one hundred .com domains.

      Why? Do you need more V1@grA?
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      Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
  6. Checklist... by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Funny

    Excerpt from checklist for when I get my time machine working:

    #10: Visit 1985 and buy up all 18,252 .COM domain names consisting of 2 and 3 letters.

    Dan East

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    Better known as 318230.
    1. Re:Checklist... by SilentBob0727 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is that before or after you become your own grandfather?

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      Life would be easier if I had the source code.
  7. Ugh, my eyes. by glindsey · · Score: 4, Funny

    I believe that website was made in 1985, and hasn't been updated since.

  8. Fanboyism by Yvanhoe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apple is there
    Microsoft is not

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    The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
  9. More Interesting.... by JeremyGNJ · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think it would be more interesting to see the "First 100 dot com's that were sold for big money"

  10. Re:I remember when.... by rucs_hack · · Score: 3, Funny

    You know the problem with people who have been around technology for a long time is when they go senile, their babble will change but most people probably won't be able to tell the difference

    Why you young insensitive clod, I'm gonna sma.....ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz whut?

  11. Conspiracy by kryten_nl · · Score: 3, Funny
    This confirms our theories:

    STARGATE.COM August 5 1986

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    For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
  12. Al Gore!? by devil6god7 · · Score: 1, Funny

    I am surprised that AlGore.com wasnt at the top of the list! ;-) Devil6God7

  13. They got the whole thing wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The first dot com was command dot com. *me ducks*
    Whew, close call.

    Then it was *whack*

  14. Re:The First Post Registered by somersault · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spam boy: Do not try and post the first. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Spam boy: There is no first. Neo: There is no first? Spam boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the first that is posted, it is only yourself, being a fucktard.

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    which is totally what she said
  15. Re:This was the 80s by encoderer · · Score: 5, Funny

    "back in those days it wasn't really a place that flower shops could have gotten anything from."

    That was until FTP was discovered.

    The Flower Transfer Protocol changed the internet forever.

  16. Re:Let's keep things in context by bitt3n · · Score: 4, Funny

    As compared to Apple, a massive old-school defense contractor that's only recently transitioned from nuclear guidance systems to MP3 players.
    "Hi, I'm a 900 megaton thermonuclear device capable of turning the entire Soviet Union into a glass parking lot at the push of a button."
    "And I'm a PC!"
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    how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?