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Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by kwhitefoot »

azalemeth wrote: post #7
john-doe wrote: post #4

On a related note, FUFME is still online: http://www.easylife.org/fufme/

I get the distinct feeling that website might be very useful prior art in any forthcoming teledildonics patent cases. Also, the "box cover" art is amazing . From their FAQ: > Can I use FuckU-FuckMe for anal or oral sex? > >Certainly! But be sure to set the preferences to oral/anal for best results. Ensure first that these acts are legal in your state. We cannot be held responsible for the legal consequences of extrac…

Alabama, still illegal it seems: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3aipiz/til_a...

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by kingcharles »

dleslie wrote: post #19
kingcharles wrote: post #10

I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also,…

> I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. Likewise! It was like having a secret code, or treasure map, and this data was much coveted among local young hackers.

There weren't many web sites, so I'll be honest, it was mostly IPs for ftp sites with upload directories that had accidentally been left open and were now filled with warez.

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Post by RobRivera »

kingcharles wrote: post #10

I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also,…

I want to return

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by LeoPanthera »

kingcharles wrote: post #20
rshannon3 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

iirc the hosts file was the primary DNS at the time, and would sync every 24 hours from a master hosts file online. Thus not needing TLDs to resolve hostnames.

While this would work, Internic would need to share the same HOSTS file. I don't remember a global shared HOSTS like that. When Windows 95 came out I created an online shared cdplayer.ini where everyone added their own track info and we intended to create a file that had info for every CD in the world (this was before CDDB was invented). Sadly the project self-destructed because W95 had a hard 64Kb limit on .ini file…

This is exactly how CDDB got started, except it was a database file for xmcd.

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by [deleted] »

kingcharles wrote: post #10

I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also,…

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Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by m-i-l »

The UK equivalent was registered in 1996 for the "well known and respected Fulchester Underwater Canoeing Klubb", allegedly to get around UK name registration rules.

Re: Fuck.com (1997)

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Post by dhosek »

I lost quixote.com (which I'd had since domain registrations were free) to a missed renewal while I was in grad school. To add insult to injury, the ultimate owner of the domain name had a parking lot filled with trucks with quixote.com painted on the side that I had to drive past every day on my way to the university.
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