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RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882 There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa" (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET). Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
If anyone knows: How were RFCs distributed before the modern Internet as we know it existed?
Hope someone's remembered to renew it. :P
Yeah - it expires tomorrow
Domain Name: SYMBOLICS.COM
Registry Domain ID: 57551_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com
Updated Date: 2020-01-16T08:51:05Z
Creation Date: 1985-03-15T05:00:00Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z
Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC
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Also creators of the crazy Space Cadet keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
I wish they still made keyboards like that. I'm curious to know the "feel"
Some of those keys like thumbs up/down etc were never really used anyway.
RFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882 There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa" (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET). Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
So instead of "the first domain name was registered", maybe it would be more accurate to say "the first registration of a domain name with a registry took place"?
First-ever domain was registered in 1985. Many others were kept being registered since then. But what are the first used domains up to these days? 100 Oldest Domain Names & Their Current Status: https://dofo.com/blog/oldest-domain-names/
That page doesn’t seem reliable—it says various domains have been used for websites since 1986.
First-ever domain was registered in 1985. Many others were kept being registered since then. But what are the first used domains up to these days? 100 Oldest Domain Names & Their Current Status: https://dofo.com/blog/oldest-domain-names/
Thank you, interesting link. I had for a long time thought symbolics.com was the first "modern style" domain to have been registered, but it looks like it was actually nordu.net, even if the intention was to use it for a root server.
Symbolics.com was the first domain name after the domain name registration is allowed.
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If anyone knows: How were RFCs distributed before the modern Internet as we know it existed?
Before the Internet there was Usenet and a world-wide network network of machines connected together via UUCP, doing email and such over point-to-point dialup (modem) links. Sending mail was a matter of knowing a complete path through the network from your source machine to the recipient's destination machine (and Usenet news implemented public discussion groups over this network). If I recall correctly, you could se…
This made me go look up when Musk bought x.com, turns out only 1999, thought it was older
I am hoping he has loads of stuff on hidden urls, and uses it for personal email or something. If he's just sitting on it doing nothing, then that's just plain wrong.