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- anaesthetica, on 10/12/2007, -7/+64Microsoft doesn't make the list. Who's surprised?
Xerox, IBM, Sun, Intel, Adobe, AMD, Tandy, Apple, Cisco, SCO all do. - Orangutan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+57textbased porn might not be all that popular among the masses who knows
- ropers, on 10/12/2007, -13/+63From a usability standpoint, www.toad.com has excellent web design:
The main page:
- fits on a single page
- has large enough click targets
- has unambiguous link names
- is high contrast
- has good readability
- is easy to maintain
- and probably allows the owner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_%28advocate%29 ) to spend more time on much more important work ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation ).
*Real* old school hackers have better things to do with their time than tweak HTML. They write PROPER code in actual programming languages. Have you looked at Linus Torvald's page lately? ( http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/torvalds/ )
And no, your criticism doesn't make you a snob.
It reveals you as being a complete ignoramus. - ropers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+44"Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority."
--Bill Gates (http://news.com.com/2100-1023-212942.html) - emanpa68, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Maybe you should register www.ispamdiggsfrontpage.com
and I'll register, www.imnotthatfunny.com - covert215, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35I'm just amazed sex.com isn't on there. Or even porn.com. Its hard to imagine, that atleast for a few years, there was no smut online.
- emanpa68, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35...and lowest bandwidth usage.
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+30Microsoft.com was not registered until 1991 and they didn't have a site until 1993.
http://www.microsoft.com/misc/features/features_flshbk.htm - mwosh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+25http://www.symbolics.com/
Registered: March 15, 1985
Last Updated: March 17, 1985 - vanadium77, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Back when Network Solutions ran the show in a virtual monopoly, they ran $75 per .com domain name.
- rmjb, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30Microsoft wanted to compete against the Internet with the Microsoft Network or MSN.
- rmjb - drew750, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22You would think ALGORE.COM would be #1
- Mc_Carter, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21stargate.com yes
- tidu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22Please, don't start a "ASCII Porn" conversation...
- merkle, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23the 100 oldest digg stories ever submitted.
- tiffany98121, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14It was free, clear into the 90's. I remember that it was quite controversial when you had to start paying to get a domain name.
- billbillbilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11oh it was there, it was there just in the form of directories mostly.
- ropers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Oh, there was, there most certainly was. Just not on the WWW. Try USENET, FTP, maybe even gopher. There was (a) life on the Internet before the WorldWideWeb, you know. Sure, today damn near everything on the Internet is HTTP-something, but way back when people happily used the Internet for years and years before anybody had even thought of the WorldWideWeb.
- Asianwaste, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14These sites began back in the day when the internet was indeed like a dumptruck
- firefox15, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I wonder how much it cost to register a domain back then. I bet the high price deterred many.
- ncdave101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Well, way back in the day when nic.ddn.mil ran the domain show, it didn't cost anything.
Yeah, I'm showing my age. - pikpikcarrotmon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+16Lol, SIEMENS. Never gets old.
- rtakach, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Since it's down, got this from archive.org:
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 - boisemedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@wildlele: 1994 and 1984, while both featuring the numbers "19" and "4" are actually in different decades.
- kutsal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Not the Stargate you're thinking about though..
- MysticalRecord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I don't know the details, but domain names and such were handled by a part of the US Department of Defense. Don't forget that the internet was originally a military project and in the beginning only the military, defense contractors, and some educational institutions were allowed to use it.
- absmith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9History of the DNS
The practice of using a name as a more human-legible abstraction of a machine's numerical address on the network predates even TCP/IP, and goes all the way back to the ARPAnet era. Originally, each computer on the network retrieved a file called HOSTS.TXT from SRI (now SRI International) which mapped an address (such as 192.0.34.166) to a name (such as www.example.net.) The Hosts file still exists on most modern operating systems, either by default or through configuration, and allows users to specify an IP address to use for a hostname without checking the DNS. This file now serves primarily for troubleshooting DNS errors or for mapping local addresses to more organic names. Systems based on a HOSTS.TXT file have inherent limitations, because of the obvious requirement that every time a given computer's address changed, every computer that seeks to communicate with it would need an update to its Hosts file.
The growth of networking called for a more scalable system: one that recorded a change in a host's address in one place only. Other hosts would learn about the change dynamically through a notification system, thus completing a globally accessible network of all hosts' names and their associated IP Addresses.
Paul Mockapetris invented the DNS in 1983 and wrote the first implementation. The original specifications appear in RFC 882 and 883. In 1987, the publication of RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 updated the DNS specification and made RFC 882 and RFC 883 obsolete. Several more-recent RFCs have proposed various extensions to the core DNS protocols.
In 1984, four Berkeley students — Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou — wrote the first UNIX implementation, which was maintained by Ralph Campbell thereafter. In 1985, Kevin Dunlap of DEC significantly re-wrote the DNS implementation and renamed it BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain, previously: Berkeley Internet Name Daemon). Mike Karels, Phil Almquist and Paul Vixie have maintained BIND since then. BIND was ported to the Windows NT platform in the early 1990s.
Due to its long history of security issues, several alternative nameserver/resolver programs have been written and distributed in recent years.
source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system#History_of_the_DNS - flamingmb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I would have laughed so hard if goatse was on that list.
- koick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6 symbolics.com (1st domain registered, and looks it!)
Dec, 98: http://web.archive.org/web/19981207002851/stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com/www/index.html
today: http://symbolics.com
@mwosh: It's changed, but not much... - dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -20/+26wow toad.com is amazing
after almost 20 years you still have a p.o.s design - selrahc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wait, having a website is stealing ideas now too?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Someone should submit a "Top 10 Times This Article Has Been on Digg Story"
It can be an on-going series along with the story about ripping MySpace songs and requesting a photos category in Digg. - billbillbilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5well the price and the lack of audience/nessicisty, most of the poeple who were online back then wuold just as soon use a ip then a domain name. infact most of the good sites were ip only
- billbillbilly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5there was internet, but not much of a www
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In Soviet Russia, there are only two web sites. The first is the official propaganda web site, and the second is a warning from the Kremlin "404 Return To Official Site Now!"
-- Paraphrased from Y.S. - upsilonh24, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7You are ***** pathetic. Get over it.
- brettmjohnson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Marble.com was originally registered to marble associates, a software consulting firm that specialized in NeXT and Unix software development.
It was named after Marc Elvy, Al Langerman and Bob Brown, who founded it when they were undergraduates at Harvard in about 1983. When [Joanna] worked there in 1993, it had about 35 really great employees. Unfortunately, three of the four senior partners died in a plane crash in 1994. (It was a private plane that two of them were piloting, here's the official report: http://www.ntsb.gov/NTSB/brief2.asp?ev_id=20001206X00892&ntsbno=FTW94FA101&akey=1)
www.marble.com (one of the very first registered domain names) now is owned by a marble company (as in the rock). - akira117, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Just cuz I was curious... ^_^
http://asciipr0n.com/pr0n/ - jarinudom, on 03/31/2008, -1/+5"textbased porn might not be all that popular among the masses who knows"
I used to download it on GEnie
Took 15 minutes per megabyte on my 9600 bps modem :( - neel360, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4DuPont and Lockheed registered their domains on the same day, therefore they're both the same rank on the list. Because of the tie, there is no 82nd, and it goes straight to 83rd.
- JosephGoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3google did not exist in 1985
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6What would the people who constantly click a story they've read before, only to tell us that they've read it before do? Wasting time, getting mad about it, then wasting more time telling us, like we care.
- bakagaigin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Note to self: Make dupe comments actually somewhat amusing and people won't digg you down into oblivion.
- edashofy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4As posted above, toad.com is indeed John Gilmore's site and, for quite some time (and perhaps still) is/was hosted out of his home, nicknamed Toad Hall. Trivia: toad.com plays an interesting and strange role in the whole Tsutomu Shimomura vs. Kevin Mitnick episode of computer hacking lore, documented in Shimomura/Markoff's book "Takedown" (the episode from Shimomura's perspective), and Jonathan Littman's book "The Fugitive Game" (the episode from Mitnick's perspective). You should read both; it's fascinating to see the story from both sides.
In any case, one of Shimomura's machines was hacked by an unknown person (possibly Mitnick but never proven definitively) using an unknown-in-the-wild IP spoofing/privilege escalation attack. He was shocked to see that a good portion of the hack had been executed from the (apparently compromised) server at toad.com, because he had been staying at Toad Hall while the attack was occurring. That is, his office computer was being hacked from the computer in the basement of the building where he was staying, while he was there. It's a small world, even on the Internet. - starguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4looks like a who's who of america's defense military contractors... first to be plugged into the global data sharing communications net...
- Markster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The Internet did not start to gain popularity until after 1996 where user connects start to rise sharply. I can't see why there are so many TLD's a long time before this...
- boypinoy18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3*clicking link*
8==D "my my what do we have here"
8=====D "uh oh, someone's getting excited"
8========D~~ ( | ) "oh yes, give it to me"
*looking around discreetly*
*shutting and locking door*
*grabbing kleenex and jergen's lotion*
hey... internet pr0n's gotta start somewhere
- sfatoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You skipped a decade there buddy...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Perhaps if the list got damaged by water perhaps, or in a fire.
- colifis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Cool - the company I work for is on there at #30- rosemount. In case you're wondering we make industrial measurement and control devices - pressure, temperature, flow sensors.
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