100 oldest .com domains
8 of the 10 oldest domains can be tied to lisp... and to keven bacon...
1. symbolics.com: made Lisp machines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
2. bbn.com: BBN made BBN Lisp for the PDP-1: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/index.html...
3. think.com: homepage of Thinking Machines Incorporated, the company that made lisp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp
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5. dec.com: Digital Equipment Corporation (which got bought by compaq, which was bought by HP) made PDP microcomputers. The first interactive lisp was implemented on the PDP-1 in 1963 by Peter Deutsch http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node5.html
6. northrop.com: northrop is still using lisp http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.h...
7. xerox.com: xerox made the Xerox Lisp Machines http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/
8. sri.com: SRI is still using lisp http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/it_management/sri...
9. hp.com: HP can be tied to lisp... but more strongly to keven bacon... http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/90/HPL-90-213.html
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"Some companies," I told Jane Hulbert, "are even registering the names of their competitors."
http://symbolics.com/ doesn't look like it's been updated too much since then either.
Here it is from 98, no divs, no doc-type: http://web.archive.org/web/19981207002851/stony-brook.scrc.s...
Interesting bit of trivia: nobody can ever have example.com, example.net, or example.org because it's a reserved domain for the RFC. Check it out at www.example.com.
Notice that Apple.com is on here, but no Microsoft.com.
Sometimes it's hard to believe that the oldest domain is still less than 25 years old.
Hah:
86= 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
for how much longer, I wonder?
Were there any restrictions on what you could register? (i.e. only domains related to your company)
I'd have thought people would have registered generic words first...
anybody knows what was the price to buy 1 back then?
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Holy crap, the top 6 are older than me.
All that work for a yourmom.com joke.