There are some real gems in there. mentat.com and then there's entity.com a resume of sorts for Marty Connor who is now apparently the Corporate Operations Engineer at Google.
The oldest .com domain names
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#33I find adobe.com really interesting. What were they doing back then?
Prepress industry was an early adopter for the internet. Not that surprising that Adobe, whose postscript format as fundamental to that shift to electronic transmission of printable artifacts, were early to the net.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You had a Commodore 64 ? Kids these days...
I'm afraid to admit I was an Apple ][ snob when the C64 came out although secretly I envied some of the C64's capabilities.
It was great. I learned how to program AND compose on it. 3 voice SID chip. I later even got a MIDI cartridge for it.
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#35I have to appreciate that I never stood a chance of getting the .com domain of my last name. It is #6 on the list.
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#36A shame to see think.com redirecting to http://www.oracle.com/splash/thinkquest/down-189973.html, which is broken by the way.
think.com is a great domain name...
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#37Why does #45 have a space in it? "Data IO.com" If you look up dataio.com, it says the creation date is October 10, 1997: http://who.is/whois/dataIO.com I assume this is a typo? Or could domains have spaces in them back then? EDIT: I see from the wikipedia page it is actually "data-io.com"
Creation dates are from the most recent domain creation record, and can be reset from a domain ownership transfer. I lost my precious domain creation date of September 1993 when I transfered my domain from the ISP who registered it /in their own name/ (argh) to my own ownership in 1998.
wow, 1993 - what domain?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately the original was much more hacker friendly and awesome. Lisp Machines! They sold it off several years ago and now live here: http://www.symbolics-dks.com/
And that site is downright embarrassing. It reminds me of the way a very different but still excellent kind of older software, Delphi, went after it lost steam and was sold off by Borland: it went to people who milked it for all it was worth while putting as little into it as possible.
my "awesome" referenced more of the product they were selling than the website they were/are running. But yes, they lost to Unix / AI winter and all the money dried up.
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#39> Domain names have been actually been available for 28 years – yes, before you even knew what a computer looked like. :grouchface:
Oh you mean 2 years after I taught myself to program on a Commodore 64 hooked up to a black and white TV in my bedroom? #getoffmylawn
It's a bit of #geoffmylawn brag but it was a much smaller community back then.
Looking at those names: I was over at #1 Symbolics quite a bit in those days (a bunch of people from the lab started the company). #3 Thinking Machines was started by my housemate Danny Hillis (I was there quite a bit visiting friends as well). I actually worked for #4 MCC and #7 Xerox (PARC in my case). I started Cygnus with John Gilmore (#84 Toad) who was previously the first employee at #12 Sun (where other founder Tiemann had also worked).
Many of the other companies on that list hold fond memories as well. Amazing!
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#40Basically all the early ones were Lisp companies:
* Symbolics, Lisp Machines
* BBN, Jericho Lisp Machine running Interlisp, lot's of applied AI stuff - BBN also did a lot of other things
* Thinking Machines, Lisp on the Connection Machine
MCC, Research Center with a hundred Lisp Machines used for research in AI (Cyc), chip design, object oriented databases (ORION), ...
* Xerox: Lisp Machine
* SRI: AI research