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- serif69, on 03/06/2009, -0/+114Older than the internet.
Wait... - WyoLars, on 03/06/2009, -10/+120The 100 oldest registered .com domains
Rank
Create date Domain name
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 - jmb93, on 03/06/2009, -1/+68@symbolics.com 1985 called, they want their website back.
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -0/+53"Hi, 7? It's 3 calling..."
"This is 2 you moron." - OrganicDeb, on 03/06/2009, -0/+51This is one of those times I wish I had a time machine...
- AlmightyCushion, on 03/06/2009, -0/+49"IBM did not get its www.ibm.com domain until 1986, some 90+ years after first coming into existence."
I imagine it was a little hard to get a domain name back in 1896 so that's probably why they waited 90 years or so. - thedcam, on 03/06/2009, -1/+50porn.com isn't there, shocking.
- UberNick, on 03/06/2009, -0/+45Some friends of mine tried to register "*****.com" in the early 90's. An Internic admin said "we can't have obscene things on the internet! Absolutely not."
- Shambla, on 03/06/2009, -0/+44Symbolics Marketing Director: Guys, now that we're on the tubes, we need a logo.
Marketing Grunt 1: Well I'm pretty good at shapes...I could draw a triangle, a circle, and a square or something... - filemeaway, on 03/06/2009, -0/+33Adobe was a company then, they developed Illustrator 1.0 in 1986, released it in '87.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Illustrator - infermon, on 03/06/2009, -0/+32I wish we could find that admin now, and show him 4chan
- avianeddy, on 03/06/2009, -0/+29DAMN Symbolics, get updated already!
- PeterNorton, on 03/06/2009, -5/+32Fascinating!
- PhonicUK, on 03/06/2009, -3/+27If I see this on Digg too many more times, I'm going to be able to recite this list from memory...
- SpykerSpeed, on 03/06/2009, -1/+25I was looking at brightly colored shapes and burping up my lunch. Much like I do today.
- darylspong, on 03/07/2009, -0/+23ALL GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN I'LL MATERIALISE HERE RIGHT HERE AT 11:37 AM ON SATURDAY. THIS IS JUST A COURTESY NOTE TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT STANDING IN THIS SPOT AT THAT TIME. THINGS MIGHT GET QUITE MESSY IF YOU ARE. ALSO, I WON'T BE ARRIVING IN A DELOREAN, BE NAKED OR BE HALF MAN HALF FLY, THIS ISN'T THE MOVIES, YOU KNOW.
- jockc, on 03/06/2009, -1/+24There were no web pages in 1985, people.
- OhTheHumanity1, on 03/06/2009, -1/+24Equally as old!
- misternils, on 03/06/2009, -0/+22Adobe started in 1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Systems - peestandingup, on 03/06/2009, -1/+22And its down.
- calon9, on 03/07/2009, -1/+22I went online for the first time in 95. I bought some software a few months later and thought ordering stuff online was incredible; the future. A couple weeks later I started surfing porn....
there is no ending to this story. - ShooterMcGavin, on 03/06/2009, -0/+17Not the "first"... but pretty old, and hilarious:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961220153812/http://w ... - VegaObscura3, on 03/07/2009, -0/+16That domain name would be worth billions now.
- kevro, on 03/06/2009, -0/+16http://www.archive.org/web/web.php
now you do. - pathouston22, on 03/06/2009, -0/+15Stupidest comments:
1. marlinc
2. pathouston22
3. ? - MasterGrief, on 03/07/2009, -0/+15-- CRAIG
- MarkusX, on 03/06/2009, -3/+18I didn't think Adobe existed in 1986 already, much less have a registered domain on the - what?, the... Internet?!
- marlinc, on 03/06/2009, -3/+17Sorry to sound pissy, but has anyone noticed that DIGG is becoming a webpage of lists? Are people really that edified by lists? Maybe it's just me.
- zydeco, on 03/06/2009, -0/+14And Telnet. And FTP. And gopher, for chrissakes! Get off my lawn!
- PeterNorton, on 03/06/2009, -1/+14I am not sure what I was doing in 1986. I certainly did not think about the Internet, much less about Adobe. Did we have those Nintendo portable consoles back then already?
- benderillo, on 03/06/2009, -6/+19God Bless Al Gore.
- foxmuldr, on 03/06/2009, -0/+12Big turning point in history. Lots of beginnings. And its interesting to see where they still rank in the top million websites. Looks like not many of the corporations made it. All of the schools are still there.
- dpcwarehouse, on 03/06/2009, -2/+14I remember getting my first modem- it was for a Commodore 64 around 1984-1985. I could use it to surf the net for 6.95 a minute lol. We've come a long way but isn't it interesting that those companies alreadynew that having a web presence was going to be important!
- inactive, on 03/06/2009, -0/+10No. There was no web back then. Those companies have domains for business-to-business purposes, similar to a credit card processing network. It was for infrastructure, not commercial or PR purposes.
And if you really don't believe me, just look at CompuServe or AOL and how they both used keywords and tried to establish their own directories. More businesses were on AOL than had domain names, because AOL was consumer-friendly. Domain names and IP addresses were too technical at the time, and still are to quite a few people. - darthvalium, on 03/07/2009, -0/+8actually google doesn't index all the websites in existence.
- snowshoeless, on 03/07/2009, -0/+8symbolics is probably completely confused why they suddenly have a huge spike in network traffic
- flyingclutchman, on 03/07/2009, -0/+8billions? how can you put a price on something like *****.com
- mrrivera, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7did too!
- jcc6655, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7I do think digg is a bit list happy. This list however IS pretty cool.
- roebeet, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7Microsoft was very late to the game. No built-in IP stack in the 3.x days (they had an add-on, later). Ah, the days of Trumpet Winsock.
- stix213, on 03/06/2009, -0/+7symbolics.com still looks like the oldest website as well.
- ModernGeek, on 03/07/2009, -0/+6Subnets/IP Blocks were also free, my dad used to own a Class A back in the day. Back then, getting a domain was as simple as a, "Hey, add me to the hosts list!"
- Meyithi, on 03/07/2009, -0/+6And how many times has this been dugg in the last 12 months and hit the front page now? 3? 4?
Should change the name Digg to Dejavu. - angrykeyboarder, on 03/07/2009, -0/+6The "Web" didn't exist exist for the average Joe until 1992.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_World_ ... - Halfempty, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Seeing those old sites I think.. damn, if ONLY I added a slight gradient and a link to "add comment" I would've been the father of 2.0
- chumscrubber, on 03/07/2009, -0/+6They're thinking it's the "MACSYMA upgrade special offer".
- Solstice, on 03/06/2009, -1/+7I think that it's kind of interesting the Microsoft isn't up there. This is another indication of just how far they were behind in embracing the internet.
- allfatherblack, on 03/06/2009, -3/+9Adobe was #42. THAT explains their success
- TJSnodgrass, on 03/06/2009, -0/+6Spoiler Alert
- Kyan, on 03/07/2009, -2/+8I guess people burying you don't know 42 is the answer to the life, the universe and everything.
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