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- dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -13/+181AW HELL NO. You stol'd my username...
- AgentPeay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+64I have to admit, it was pretty cool to see "1985" in the whois registry...
- MikeKnoop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+60I bet that site displays pixel-perfect on every browser.
-Mike - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+56This is slightly inaccurate. Nordu (www.nordu.net) registered on either Dec 31, 1984 or Jan 1, 1985, about 2 weeks before RFC 920 went into effect. Symbolics was the first ".com" domain though.
Whois info: http://whois.domaintools.com/nordu.net - zoltanthebold, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48In those days it was about 20 pieces of eight, or a small box of live poultry. Man, those were the days...
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -6/+50you think they would've found time to update the site in the last 20 years. but you'd be wrong
- yongfook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36The DTD is HTML 4.01. Chill people, this site wasn't *built* 20 years ago. The domain is just damn old.
- spamzor, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39I was very impressed to see that no tables were used... All the styles are imbedded but hey, it's better than a lot of sites i've seen made in the year 2006! haha
Who would have thought! - zoltanthebold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+35Don't you mean: Ye Olde Payment Friende - as it was in those days?
- mattwilson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+36Just by looking at the design of the page
- kingvar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Especially with the circle, square, triangle design from MS paint
- satch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30The internet isn't going to exist in 21 years.
Atleast not in the way we use it today. - hafetysazard, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32Perhaps he was trying to emulate your front page success.
- tritium, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30This is a fun little story, but there will come a day when people will post domain names to digg 26.0 and say "Wow! A domain registered in 2006!"
Can you imagine what the web is going to look like in another 21 years? It's mind boggling. - InternetUser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Internet: Serious Business!
- drwiii, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26"1985 - long before anyone knew what a huge part in our lives the Internet was going to play"
To be fair, there were quite a few people who knew. They made it happen. - mdshw5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26I can't get the pic to display in lynx.
- HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27Pretty dirty of him, I admit. I wonder if anything can be done about it.
- revokin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25The website isn't from 1985. Only the domain. If you look they even talk about PayPal on one of the pages.
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26he's username squatting
- fprintf, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30Sure, just ask Al Gore!
- sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21The absence of the Bill Gates mug-shot user icon gave it away. Agreed on the lameness of username squatting.
- Sheco, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25He didnt steal it, you still have your username, he just blatantly copied it.
- ocram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16http://whois.domaintools.com/symbolics.com
Created: 1985-03-14 - eblah, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.com
There's a nice list of the oldest domains still in operation. - drowe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Of course, they call it 'Payment Pal', so maybe it was the earlier version...before eBay took off...
Payment Pal? Seriously? - Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Built with: IBM WebSphere Studio Homepage Builder V6.0.0 for Windows
Definitely not 1985 :) - cnrd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14They setup the site and never upgraded to 2.0. Kinda oldschool.
- AlexApetrei, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12cool they have page rank 5 just because they have been online for so long.
with a bit of content , maybe some links to the site that could easily go to 8 or even 9.
Kickass - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Yeah, it's only from 1988.
- jayadelson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Registrations were handled very differently back then. The InterNIC was careful to check that .com's were commercial, .org's were non-profit, and .net's were backbones. My first was in 1994...and it was still free! It's almost free again.
- ukprototype, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10This may help:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.symbolics.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18I wasn't even born then!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8next thing you know people will be coming up with:
cleanfratboy
dirtyfratgirl - admdrew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+71. Go to http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/index.jsp
2. Search for symbolics.com
3. Click "Search"
4. Look where it says "Record created on 15-Mar-1985"
...just so you have two lookups :P - zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8but what did it cost to register a domain name back then?
- Pile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yea, I registered a bunch of domains in the early days when they were free. What led to charges for domains was that Proctor & Gamble made a run on domains and snapped up a ton of generic domains and this caused outrage in the community, which led the way towards Network Solutions ( a government contractor ) spontaneously deciding to charge for domain registrations... many of us think the whole move was illegal and unethical since NSI already had a grant from the government to manage the TLDs. At first they were charging more than $100 per domain and some judge claimed they were charging an "illegal tax" by taking proceeds of the money and using it for future development. I had dozens of domains that were registered before the fees, which meant, as long as I didn't change the registrar records, I would NEVER have to pay annual renewal fees. Unfortunately, I had a boneheaded Sysadmin who wanted to change the DNS records and re-ack'd the domain registration agreement when he bulk modified the records and *bam*, we were suddenly sent invoices for all our domains. That sucked.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Holy crap.. it just struck me that there are people who don't realize there was an internet before HTML.. I mean, I knew it, but it never really struck me.. and then, WHAM.
Excuse me while I retreat into the corner to comfort myself by rocking and rambling incoherently about bang paths and gopher and uucp, and "what's spam?", and ftp.cdrom.com (I hear they have like a whole cd-rom's worth of files online!) and ircII @ 1200 baud..
Damn you Tim Berners Lee! !! Mommy.. Why am I so cold?? - veza, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I remember surfin' with Netscape on Nasa's site and some *cough*baywatch babes*cough* releated sites at 1994...
- absoluteczech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Lol that awesome, however the site looks like it was designed in 1985 too
- JeffreyAtW, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@mattwilson: The design of the page isn't from 1985. HTML didn't even exist until the early '90s. If you RTFA, you'll see that the page is for the company that acquired the domain.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks for sharing your insightful thoughts.
- tdowling, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The www was around before that, but it came into relatively common use around '93 with the release of Mosaic. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/News/MosaicHistory/
Then a few of the guys (Andreesen, etc.) ditched out and started Netscape. - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What the hell is someone with that opinion doing in a Digg comment page?
- ascolti, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually. Lets not get sniffy about web design... Check out Apple from 1997
http://web.archive.org/web/19970404064352/http://www.apple.com/
Jeeeeeeeez. Would you buy an 'Emate 300' from them, despite being "Mobile, Affordable AND Smart"......and neither did anyone at the time. - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The Web Archive didn't begin until 1996, and didn't know about a whole lot of sites when it first started, so it's not surprising that it may have taken 2 years to find the Symbolics site. It's probably been up much longer than that--1994 or so, likely.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, because that HTML they made in '85 wasn't rendering right on CoCo-2's..
"CERN launched the Web in 1991 along with a mailing list called www-talk. "
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/historical
[e-tard bitchslap] - Magadass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I hate you for saying 2.0 like that!
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I believe when I bought my PowerBook 5300cs the site was even more simplistic than that... but it did come with eWorld!
- artman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+221 years later and pawned by Digg...
/welcome to the interweb 2.0 grandpa -
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