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25 Years of the .com gTLD
An anonymous reader writes "The domain COM was installed as one of the first set of top-level domains when the Domain Name System was first implemented for use on the Internet in January 1985. The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15th of March — the 25th anniversary of the day the first .com name was registered. Of the 250 million websites, there are over 80 million active .com sites. In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with an internet address ending in .com (however, on 27 August 2009, it was sold to XF.com Investments). That same year another five companies jumped on a very slow bandwagon. Here is a list of the 100 oldest still-existing registered .com domains."
tomato
But It's pronounced tomato!
25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
This precedes the movie by 8 years. Do you know what that means? It's all real! I knew it! I am so getting myself an F-302. Cheyenne Mountain, here I come.
"DNS" was a "HOSTS.TXT" file FTP'd down from ISI.
Now stop doing zone transfers across my lawn, you punks!
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Earliest WayBack Machine entry for MS:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://www.microsoft.com/
The thing that makes me laugh most about this slice of history is the footer link to /MISC/CPYRIGHT.HTM
I bet they still have some of those 8.3s kicking around.
A British guy told me off today because I said "to-mate-oh" instead of "to-mah-to." (English is not my native language)
He's such a cigarette.