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Fuck.com (1997)
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#62lol, when you discover c__t.com links to a wikipedia page.
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#63I 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 registered my UUCP node prior to 1994, so there :P...
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#64I love the simplicity of this website, good old days!
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a bit too young to remember the advent of the Internet but old enough to remember when the FXP scene burst onto BBS's with enough warez to fill every hard drive I could get my hands on.
hard drive? you mean diskettes, ZIP drives, and SYQUEST cartridges
Iomega Zip drives— still impressed with the choice of making the drives blue. The showstopper though, was my dad’s wood modem—I don’t remember if it was plastic or real, but it was purchased from a national retailer—not homemade and way cooler than the slate of white 56k US Robotics modems that followed!
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
why write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before that something else, maybe ws_ftp.
I’m not op but I have a very funny, related story.
In the nineties, my parents occasionally logged into my computer and stared at it for 15-20 minutes before going upstairs and turning on the television. Saving numbers in the computer box meant that I was breaking into the CIA and selling secrets to the Russians (while fornicating). Writing the same things down in a notebook was okay.
Re: Fuck.com (1997)
#67I 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.
At least they did something with it. One of my domain names has been on sale for 10.000$ by a squatter for a few years after a billing issue.
That would bother me too since they're only buying it to resell. Over a decade ago I emailed a domainer/squatter to ask about a domain that matches my sister's married surname. It was the ccTLD version, not even the .com. At the time, they told me they didn't accept offers of less than $2k, so I offered them $100 as an insult and forgot about it.
8 years later I get a random email asking me if I'm still interested in the domain. Lol. I check it every once in a while. Last year they wanted $8k. This year they want $10k. Holding it for 20 years (literally) has only costed them about $200 I think, so there's not much downside if you're rich and can afford to buy in bulk with the possibility of making 50x profit at times.
It's too bad there aren't any great solutions to eliminate domain squatting like that.
Re: Fuck.com (1997)
#68I 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,…
an ol' buddy of mine has always claimed to have owned apple.com back in those days but he said they just took it from him one day. He would have been pretty young then, like 10 (and, yeah, that sounds right for him). Maybe he lost it because they started charging! haha.
Re: Fuck.com (1997)
#69I 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.
Were you in Los Angeles? If so, I used to drive past the same lot!
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
If registration were free one guy would write a script to register every possible domain and no one would be able to get one without buying it off of him.
Easy to handle, just use the rules of that time — single domain for single IP. Not applicable to v6 and dyndnses, but something like this can solve it.
That was not a hard and fast “rule” in 1994 in that you could host multiple domains on a single IP for email purposes. You could also point an arbitrary number of domains/host records to an http server with a single IP, you just couldn’t serve differentiated content per domain/host record.