The First 100 Dot Coms Ever Registered

roman1 submitted an interesting list containing the first 100 .com domains registered. Many of the names you haven't heard of, many you have. What was interesting to me is that it took 2 years just to get 100 domains on-line.

Why?

[Anonymous Coward]

What was interesting to me is that it took 2 years just to get 100 domains on-line.

Why is that interesting? I'm not even sure if this 'internet' thing is going to catch on ...

Re:Symbolics ...

[djones101]

Where's the Windows key? *ducks the inevitable smack*

Re:I remember when....

[Selfbain]

You know the problem with people who have been around technology for a long time is when they go senile, their babble will change but most people probably won't be able to tell the difference.

What?

[DurendalMac]

No ASCIIPORN.COM?

Where's the last bunch?

[cerberusss]

This 'first 100 .com' stuff is all nice and dandy, but what I want to see is the LAST one hundred .com domains.

Checklist...

[Dan East]

Excerpt from checklist for when I get my time machine working:

#10: Visit 1985 and buy up all 18,252 .COM domain names consisting of 2 and 3 letters.

Dan East

Ugh, my eyes.

[glindsey]

I believe that website was made in 1985, and hasn't been updated since.

Re:Checklist...

[SilentBob0727]

Is that before or after you become your own grandfather?

Fanboyism

[Yvanhoe]

Apple is there
Microsoft is not

Re:Where's the last bunch?

[NoSuchGuy]

but what I want to see is the LAST one hundred .com domains.

Why? Do you need more V1@grA?

More Interesting....

[JeremyGNJ]

I think it would be more interesting to see the "First 100 dot com's that were sold for big money"

Re:I remember when....

[rucs_hack]

You know the problem with people who have been around technology for a long time is when they go senile, their babble will change but most people probably won't be able to tell the difference

Why you young insensitive clod, I'm gonna sma.....ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz whut?

Conspiracy

[kryten_nl]

This confirms our theories:

STARGATE.COM August 5 1986

Al Gore!?

[devil6god7]

I am surprised that AlGore.com wasnt at the top of the list! ;-) Devil6God7

They got the whole thing wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

The first dot com was command dot com. *me ducks*
Whew, close call.

Then it was *whack*

Re:Why?

[somersault]

I noticed StarGate, and of course also the first ever (rather poorly spelled) porn site - siemens.com! Those guys obviously had great vision for the future, and from their lowly porn business beginnings, they must have managed to start a decent electronics company!

Re:The First Post Registered

[somersault]

Spam boy: Do not try and post the first. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. Neo: What truth? Spam boy: There is no first. Neo: There is no first? Spam boy: Then you'll see, that it is not the first that is posted, it is only yourself, being a fucktard.

Re:This was the 80s

[encoderer]

"back in those days it wasn't really a place that flower shops could have gotten anything from."

That was until FTP was discovered.

The Flower Transfer Protocol changed the internet forever.

Re:Let's keep things in context

[bitt3n]

As compared to Apple, a massive old-school defense contractor that's only recently transitioned from nuclear guidance systems to MP3 players.

"Hi, I'm a 900 megaton thermonuclear device capable of turning the entire Soviet Union into a glass parking lot at the push of a button."
"And I'm a PC!"

Re:Why?

[fatmal]

Could be an urban legend, but I'd heard that a U.K. branch of Siemens got in trouble with the German head office people for not answering the phone correctly. The company 'standard' was "Siemens Berlin" for the berlin office - "Siemens Singapore" for Singapore etc.

The branch office that got in trouble for not answering their phones correctly - Staines