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Oct 19, 2005, 10:22 PM
 
Saw this on boingboing. Hope the formatting kind of survives.


1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16= 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
16= 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18= 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
18= 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40= 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
40= 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
42= 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65= 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
65= 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73= 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
73= 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76= 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
76= 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
81= 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
81= 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
97= 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
97= 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM
     
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Oct 19, 2005, 10:24 PM
 
Go # 64!!
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Oct 19, 2005, 10:37 PM
 
I thought #1 was...

PLAYBOY.COM

     
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Oct 19, 2005, 10:40 PM
 
Ahhh to go back in time and be a cyber squater.... think of the money we could have all made. You know, if I hadn`t been like 3 at the time.
     
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Oct 19, 2005, 10:41 PM
 
#3 ... was that IBM?
     
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Oct 19, 2005, 10:44 PM
 
Look at how many of those companies either aren't around anymore or have been bought by other companies on the list, it's like a Tech graveyard... I just tried going to three or four comanies on the list that I didn't remember and got domain squatter search pages....
     
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Oct 19, 2005, 10:49 PM
 
I remember going on the web in the early early 90s. Most everything was campus related. Wasn't all filled with advetisement crap.
     
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Oct 19, 2005, 11:15 PM
 
Yet another excuse to show this lame web site:

http://www.starman.com/

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Oct 20, 2005, 12:22 AM
 
Nobody, I repeat Nobody, I repeat again, Nobody, I gotta say this one more time.. NOBODY had the Internet in the 80s. Everyone was watching video tapes and cable tv, while drinking beer and watching basketball.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 12:24 AM
 
Originally Posted by starman
Yet another excuse to show this lame web site:

http://www.starman.com/
You are spot on there starman.. that site is totaly lame.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 12:26 AM
 
Originally Posted by Mastrap
Saw this on boingboing. Hope the formatting kind of survives.


1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
I don't think they ever updated.
[removed oversize inline image. CHECK IMAGE SIZES BEFORE YOU POST! --tooki]
Almost as lame as starman.com
( Last edited by tooki; Oct 20, 2005 at 01:44 AM. )
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 12:36 AM
 
Almost as bad as Christ.com

Oh well least apparently Jesus.com is now no longer run by the guy dressed in a white robe looking for a wife...
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 01:42 AM
 
How, pray tell, did all these companies supposedly register domains 10 years before the Internet was opened to commercial interests? It was a research-only network until 1995.

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Oct 20, 2005, 03:44 AM
 
That's right tooki..good point there guy, I appologize you had to tookinize me.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 06:06 AM
 
Originally Posted by tooki
How, pray tell, did all these companies supposedly register domains 10 years before the Internet was opened to commercial interests? It was a research-only network until 1995.

tooki

Are you sure? they showed us how to register domain names when I started university in 1994.
If I had a credit card I could have got one.

I wish I had, there were some beauties!
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 06:56 AM
 
True that. I very nearly registered my first name in the early 90s but balked at the cost. How I wish I hadn't now.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 07:57 AM
 
Originally Posted by tooki
How, pray tell, did all these companies supposedly register domains 10 years before the Internet was opened to commercial interests? It was a research-only network until 1995.

tooki
All these companies probably funded university research. They needed the .com domain to be able to send mail to the researchers they funded, use Gopher to find them, and play nethack with them.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 08:02 AM
 
I'm surprised Zombo.com isn't on that list.

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Oct 20, 2005, 08:14 AM
 
Originally Posted by chris v
I'm surprised Zombo.com isn't on that list.
He was holding out. He wanted to wait till you could do ANYTHING on zombo.com

Back then it was simply limited.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 08:17 AM
 
Originally Posted by Cubeoid
Nobody, I repeat Nobody, I repeat again, Nobody, I gotta say this one more time.. NOBODY had the Internet in the 80s. Everyone was watching video tapes and cable tv, while drinking beer and watching basketball.
I did.

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Oct 20, 2005, 08:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by tooki
How, pray tell, did all these companies supposedly register domains 10 years before the Internet was opened to commercial interests? It was a research-only network until 1995.

tooki
Wrong. There was a LOT of commercial stuff on the net in the early 90's.

Am I the only one here that actually used the 'net in the late 80's?

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Oct 20, 2005, 08:20 AM
 
I started in 90.. soo yeah it was commercial.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 08:23 AM
 
Originally Posted by starman
Am I the only one here that actually used the 'net in the late 80's?
No. I started at least as early as '89.
Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
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Oct 20, 2005, 08:25 AM
 
A lot of those companies were involved with government contracts, but you're right, tooki. How DID they register so early?

But I think the whole thing was opened up before 1995; I remember using Lynx in '92 on the DEC at school, and there were sites to visit (but not really "view" since I was using Lynx...)

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Oct 20, 2005, 09:23 AM
 
First commercial site on the web, 1993:

http://www.littlechair.com/web/gnn/index.html

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Oct 20, 2005, 09:25 AM
 
As for "how did they know?", remember that places offered FTP access. I remember grabbing updates to Think C over FTP back in '89 or so. It wasn't just about the web.

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Oct 20, 2005, 10:22 AM
 
Yeah, for example, dec.com, they started to use that back in the mid/late 80s for software updates (which we subscribed to; it was a contract you could sign up for. so instead of software on magtape or TEK, you could get it over the network. at first it was modem only, then ftp). And according to WHOIS data those dates are correct.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 12:59 PM
 
My boss had a compuserve account, or wait what was it-- Prodigy?? back in '89, I think.

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Oct 20, 2005, 01:13 PM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin
He was holding out. He wanted to wait till you could do ANYTHING on zombo.com

Back then it was simply limited.


I showed a friend a coworker of mine that site this summer as he had apparently not seen it; became an instant hit with him, although when he showed it to his girlfriend, she didnt seem to "get it" as he had.

Zombo.com should release a CD of their greatest hits. "And welcome to zombocom!!"
     
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Originally Posted by Doofy
No. I started at least as early as '89.
And I as well, in 1983 (thanks to Bellcore).

Back then, USENET was the closest thing to the web as far as a "community" goes. Of course, email was then (and probably still is) the main usage. My email address at the time was "bellcore!allegra!rba-dx"

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Oct 20, 2005, 01:21 PM
 
Those were some nasty-ass email addresses. My wife was going to school at the time and her email was like:

thisemail.whatever!blahblah@da-da-da

or something like that. It took me forever to get the syntax of her email right. I think she was on a VMS system at the time.

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Originally Posted by Dork.
and play nethack with them.
Hack and Daiku MUD. Yeah baby!

And before the intarweb, it was dialup BBS with Hack n' Slash, Tradewars, Empire, and Global Thermal Nuclear Warfare.
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Originally Posted by starman
Wrong. There was a LOT of commercial stuff on the net in the early 90's.

Am I the only one here that actually used the 'net in the late 80's?

Mike
I was going by the Wikipedia article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet . The "history of the internet" article describes it in a little more detail (which i didn't read till after this).

I don't think I'm entirely wrong -- the Internet wasn't opened to commerce until the mid-90s. (Read the history article to see what they're talking about.)

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Oct 20, 2005, 03:55 PM
 
Originally Posted by starman
Those were some nasty-ass email addresses. My wife was going to school at the time and her email was like:

thisemail.whatever!blahblah@da-da-da

or something like that. It took me forever to get the syntax of her email right. I think she was on a VMS system at the time.

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Oct 23, 2005, 03:09 AM
 
tooky How, pray tell, did all these companies supposedly register domains 10 years before the Internet was opened to commercial interests? It was a research-only network until 1995.

You've answered your own question. These were research-centered entities, using what was then called ARPANET to speak with universities.

For example, Symbolics (#1) made a computer which had the operating system and user interface all made from the Lisp programming language. A bit of research will yield the name "Richard Stallman", and a pretty good story. (Or read the book "Hackers".)

BBN (#2) is Bolt, Baraneck, and Newman. These folks pretty much created and managed the physical infrastructure of the ARPANET.

DEC (#5) is Digital Equipment Corp., a company which made the VAX and PDP lines of computers. They pioneered lots of small system stuff. Read "Soul of a New Machine" to understand the history of what became the computer on your desk.

You know Xerox (#7) and H-P (#9). Bellcore (#10) is Bell Telephone Research, the folks who are responsible for UNIX (the underpinnings of Mac OS X).

All these commercial interests used the 'net to communicate, primarily about military-funded research (via DARPA) which led to most modern telecommunications and networking, hardware, user interfaces, and war-gaming.

It was only commercial transactions over the Internet which became permissible so late. Commercial companies were using the 'net for much, much longer.
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Oct 23, 2005, 06:36 AM
 
Should add SRI (#8), for being major research center and also being one of the first four nodes on the APRANET.
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The first domain names could be registered for Email addresses only back in 83, DNS was created to make Milnet easier to use, and it was created byJon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge to support the Email addressing space, creating .edu, .gov, .com, .mil, .org, .net, & .int. So for years Milnet was around for mail, which turned into the Internet.
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Oct 23, 2005, 07:06 AM
 
.com is comerical interest
.net is network
.org is non profit orgz
.mil is army
.edu is education
.gov is govment

.int I've never heard of does it stand for .internet ?! .. heh

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Originally Posted by Cubeoid
int I've never heard of does it stand for .internet ?!
"To register in the INT domain, the applicant must comply with the requirements found in RFC 1591. In brief, the INT domain is used only for registering organizations established by international treaties between governments or Internet infrastructure databases (for example to do address to name lookups based on NSAPs)."

The U.N. is the only one I know that has one. http://www.un.int/
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Oct 23, 2005, 08:07 AM
 
Thanks for the info Reggie.

Here are some more:

www.who.int - World Health Organisation
www.europa.eu.int - the EU
www.nato.int - NATO
www.interpol.int - INTERPOL
www.ecb.int - European central bank
     
   
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