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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 ...
  2. Symbolics ... by foobsr · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... here is some pictures of a symbolics (those with the first domasin) machine for those who cannot imagine ...

    http://home.hakuhale.net/rbc/symbolics/20041113/20041113.html

    CC.

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    TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
  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. 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.
  5. wiki by tofupup · · Score: 5, Informative

    here is a nice linked list of the *.com list
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com

  6. .org was always a catch-all by Cadre · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sure when the net was young that .orgs had to be non profit

    .org was not created for non-profit organizations, it was originally created as a catch-all for organizations that didn't meet the requirements for the other gTLDs. PIR's History Page, RFC 920, RFC 1591

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    All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
  7. IDE.com registration and use of email by twasserman · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I was founder and CEO of Interactive Development Environments, Inc. (ide.com), which was the 78th dotcom on the "first 100" list. IDE developed the Software through Pictures multi-user graphical modeling environment that ran on a heterogeneous network of Unix workstations. We released our product in late 1984, got VC funding in May, 1988, and lasted until November, 1996, when we were merged into Aonix, which still exists today.

    Although we were 78th on that list, I believe that we were among the very first to place an ad that used an email address as a contact point. I was able to find an ad from the August, 1987, issue of Unix World, where we gave our email address as ucbvax!sun!ide!sales, using the UUCP format. Our customers were developers and early adopters, mostly on Sun workstations, so we actually got some email and some sales leads in this way. Of course, we switched to the "@ide.com" format as soon as we were able to do so. (Please post a reply if you are aware of an earlier use of an email address in a published ad.)

    Fun times....

  8. 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.