Oldest Domain Names

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

List of the 100 oldest domain names.

http://www.iwhois.com/oldest/


Notice Microsoft isn't even on the list. They were quite late to the party registering in 1991 (the 100 list ends in 1987). MS has always  sucked.

[N3DRB The Derb]

MS has  *always* sucked.

word.

[ka3zlr]

Yup,.. it sux all the way to the Bank doesn't it..LOL

Tandy.com 1986...WOW I didn't know that...

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

Yep. I judge the quality of people and companies by how much money they make. 

[Opcom]

I remember Symbolics. that was a computer that could smoke it! I gutted an obsolete one model 3600? for the very pretty rack and built a 4CX5000 deck in there, but never finished it and sold the works to a ham. I still have the 3500-3000-2400-0-2400-3000-3500 @ 1A DC power transformer. on wheels.. figured it would do for ICAS rules.

Looks like DEC.com is there too, pwned by h/p.

The King is dead! Long live the King!

Now these are the proper internet names. What of the DARPA and ARPA names? I do not recall their format. Was it just addresses? ugh the days of ATM.

[K9ACT]

That seems a very small list to cover that many years.

I had accounts with at least 3 different public internet servers as they were called back then and I don't see any on the list.

In particular, WB8EOH/SK in Marquett MI hosted greatwhitenorth and this was my first entre into the internet.  He sent me a list of all the public servers in the country and it was no more than two pages.

At that time there were only 2 public servers in the entire Chicago area and one really had to grovel to get an account.

Having said all that, I am a bit foggy on the .com thing.  I don't recall that at all.
 It was just jack@greatwhitenorth  Of course email and usenet was the internet.

When the .com come along?

Perhaps your list is just .coms and earlier domains are just not included because the masses would not understand?

js

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

IP addresses or similar were used before names. Then there were host names but they had no domains following them. Routing became a problem. The internet didn't switch to TCP/IP until the early 1980s. The first name server didn't go on line until 1984. The top level domains (com, net org, etc.), along with the actual DNS as we know it, appeared in 1984/85. DNS didn't really get rolling until after 85/86.

[Todd, KA1KAQ]

I can still remember the CompuServ ads bombarding the airwaves a decade later, mid 90s. Before AOHell came along, even...

It's funny to read about the history of something still considered by so many to be 'new'. The first email I ever sent went through a mainframe, using something called 'Profs'.

[KA8WTK]

Ah, the days before the "web". I remember taking hours to down load NASA pictures from JPL through Akron U with a 300 baud modem. What "modern" user remembers Archie and Gopher?