Don't recognize most of them but the other day I learned Nokia was incorporated in 1871 and it is still around.
I just noticed that Stella Artois is 650 years old!
List of oldest companies: Before 1300
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#73The oldest name on this list that stood out to me is Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040 in Bavaria, Germany. They have some of the finest lagers I have ever tried. If you enjoy crisp, refreshing lager beers, I highly recommend their beers. My favorite one is probably the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, followed by the Hefeweissbier Dunkel. Note: I am not affiliated in any way with the company, I just highly enjoy…
Beer nazi here... Hefeweizen/weissbier is not a lager. Lagers are cold bottom-fermented beers. Hefeweizen is warm top-fermented beer.
They're probably most known for their lagers/pilsener, maybe he meant he also likes their wheat beers?
Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300
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#75Should not the church be on top of this list?
I was thinking there would be a very good case for the Vatican to occupy the number one spot.
Whether seen solely as the papal organisation , or as a kind of continuation of the (Western) Roman Empire, these guys have been in day to day business for at least close to two thousand years. And have the archives to prove it. Wanna check up on some royal correspondance from the year 500? They may well have the actual letters stashed away somewhere.
Also: I don't really think the for-profit filter disqualifies them here.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It contains all the information you need, loads immediately, etc. It's a perfect web page.
I do share your appreciation for simple, static pages that get the job done, but the layout on this site is totally messed up for me, totally unaware of dpi I assume.
It does actually have a fluid grid, so it is responsive down to about tablet width. It does not display correctly on phones however, which I suppose is a fatal flaw for a hotel site.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Be in a timeless industry” seems to have heavy weighting :-) Most are hospitality or alcohol production, it looks like.
"Be in a timeless industry” - then there should be at least one brothel in the list..
Timeless would probably include "timelessly legal" as a component.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
When you are successful and have stood the test of time, who needs a website? In 100 years or so, there probably won't be such a thing as html in popular use any longer.
The web design company ( http://www.online-media-werbeagentur.de/ ) seems out of business though :)
The copyright date is 2006. It's amazing that a site design like this would have been built as late as 2006. It looks more like something from 1996.
Oh, and I just noticed that if you change the language to German, there is a link to a photo gallery:
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#79Wow, this web page looks like it hasn't been updated since 1439: http://www.luebeckaltstadthotel.de/
* Loads instantly
* Provides all relevant information at a glance
Needs more Javascript?
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#80There sure is alot of pub and accommodation entries, but then that is one area that technology and indeed, industrialization and the other progressive phases in society have not impacted as much as other industries. On a positive and encourage note - not one single manufacturer of weapons listed at all.
Likely because guns went through a lot of recent technology disruptions.
Nonetheless, Colt was founded in 1855 and is doing fine. Unless laser handguns become a thing I don't see them going down for the foreseeable future.