The first and oldest .com on the Internet

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Post by llambda » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

The first and oldest .com on the Internet
symbolics.com

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#2

Post by prezjordan » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 6:56 PM UTC

They should've went with sym.com

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#3

Post by mtraven » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 7:17 PM UTC

Wow, all that trendy toilet-paper-roll data graphics, and not a single mention of what Symbolics actually did. For that, look here: http://www.smbx.org/

Re: The first and oldest .com on the Internet

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Post by ChuckMcM » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 7:54 PM UTC

mtraven wrote: post #3

Wow, all that trendy toilet-paper-roll data graphics, and not a single mention of what Symbolics actually did. For that, look here: http://www.smbx.org/

I think you're on to something there.

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Post by Malic » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 8:54 PM UTC

Pop quiz - Who was the first band to have a web site on the WWW?

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Post by j2kun » Mon, Feb 11, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

Malic wrote: post #5

Pop quiz - Who was the first band to have a web site on the WWW?

Was it... The Beatles?

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Post by ryanaghdam » Tue, Feb 12, 2013, 12:07 AM UTC

I'm shocked that Two and a Half Men is that popular! $252,500 for a 30 second commercial!