Friday, March 16, 2012

Symbolics, the oldest domain name


Chicago (IL) - Ever wonder what the oldest registered .com domain is on the Internet? After all, they haven't always existed. In fact, it was just 24 years ago this month that the oldest domain was registered. It was www.symbolics.com, owned by the Symbolics, Inc. company who, back in the day, was a leading software development firm with software projects designed back in the 1980s which appear very much like modern software designs seen today. For example, they had developed a fully object-oriented operating system called Genera, which today still exists as Open Genera, for Alpha CPUs. Their domain was registered on March 15, 1985 -- when the Internet was brand new.

http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch/41643-updated-the-100-oldest-registered-dot-com-org-net-edu-domains

On this day 27 years ago, the very first of a new breed of Internet domain was registered: symbolics.com. That means domains like catswearingscarves.com and ilovedavecoulier.com were totally still available.

http://mashable.com/2012/03/15/dot-com-domains-infographic/

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