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What was the process of registering a domain name at that time? I've often dreamed about going back in time to when I was a kid and registering a bunch of domains before 1995. What would have been involved?
This made me go look up when Musk bought x.com, turns out only 1999, thought it was older
X.com is one of the few single-character domain names that created before IANA’s restriction of single-letter and single-digit domain names registration in December 1993.
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/
Is this the same Symbolics that came out of the MIT AI lab? With the LISP machines?
Also creators of the crazy Space Cadet keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
I had a Space Cadet on my desk in the EECS department along with a Plasma TV system monitor.
Had fun times hacking the PDP-11 software driving the Plasma TV system.
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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"
But the whole experience was still not as satisfying as the original Knight keyboards, I suspect because the Knight boards used the original, larger switches, while the Space Cadets used the smaller. Chyrosran22 on Youtube explains all this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcdN4Vzg6_g and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDozftThFMw).
By the way, after 40 years of despairing over the loss of Hall effect switches (I nursed a Space Cadet Livermore Labs clone from a group buy for some years into the mid-80's), there are now two keyboards using this technology, and I'm loving the one that's actually available.
Steelseries Apex Pro is what's now shipping, and it's a dream. (https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Apex-Mechanical-Gaming-Ke...)
The Input Club Keystone is still coming, slowly (https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keybo...), but I'm also really looking forward to trying it.
This made me go look up when Musk bought x.com, turns out only 1999, thought it was older
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/
I am the founder of Octopus Deploy - we have #52 on that list. It was first registered in the same year I was born!
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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…
That was still the Internet, it just wasn't the World Wide Web or modern (SMTP/POP3/IMAP) email.
Per Wikipedia, "The Internet (portmanteau of interconnected network) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide."
The network of UUCP-connected machines (also called UUCPNET) did not use TCP/IP and had no inbuilt notion of how to get packets from one place to another. One had to specifically list a set of instructions, a path, from source to destination hosts. UUCPNET was entirely store-and-forward, and sent entire messages, not packets. And it was in wide use throughout the 80's before the Internet became a thing (which happened once researchers started interconnecting networks that used TCP/IP).
To say that UUCPNET was the Internet just without the web, is like saying that radio _is_ TV, just without the pictures.
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That was still the Internet, it just wasn't the World Wide Web or modern (SMTP/POP3/IMAP) email.
No, that was a network, but it was very much not the Internet. Different technologies. Per Wikipedia, "The Internet (portmanteau of interconnected network) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide." The network of UUCP-connected machines (also called UUCPNET) did not use TCP/IP and had no inbuilt notion of how to get packets from…