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35 years ago today: the first domain name symbolics.com was registered
- macittuna 7y agoFirst-ever domain was registered in 1985. Many others were kept being registered since then. But what are the first used domains up to these days? 100 Oldest Domain Names & Their Current Status: https://dofo.com/blog/oldest-domain-names/ https://dofo.com/blog/oldest-domain-names/
- ezequiel-garzon 7y agoThank you, interesting link. I had for a long time thought symbolics.com was the first "modern style" domain to have been registered, but it looks like it was actually nordu.net, even if the intention was to use it for a root server.
- macittuna 7y agoYes, we might differentiate these like that: Nordu.net was the first created domain name. Symbolics.com was the first registered domain name. Symbolics.com was the first domain name after the domain name registration is allowed.
- mattl 7y agoThat page doesn’t seem reliable—it says various domains have been used for websites since 1986.
- macittuna 7y agoYes, lots of domain names have been used since 1985-86. What's wrong here?
- Brian_K_White 7y ago"websites"
- paulstovell 7y agoI am the founder of Octopus Deploy - we have #52 on that list. It was first registered in the same year I was born!
- macittuna 7y agoWow, congrats!
- greenyoda 7y agoRFC 882, which defined domain-style addressing, was released in 1983: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc882 There was domain-style addressing that predated domains like ".com" and ".edu". The original top-level domains were ".arpa" (for ARPANET) and ".mil" (for MILNET). Symbolics was "symbolics.arpa" before it was "symbolics.com".
- adrianmonk 7y agoSo instead of "the first domain name was registered", maybe it would be more accurate to say "the first registration of a domain name with a registry took place"?
- lispm 7y agoBasically it was the first ".com" domain.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoIf anyone knows: How were RFCs distributed before the modern Internet as we know it existed?
- EvanAnderson 7y agoI believe these were distributed via FTP from InterNIC at SRI[1]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterNIC https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterNIC
- wolfgang42 7y agoIn the very early days (from RFC 3): DISTRIBUTION One copy only will be sent from the author's site to" 1. Bob Kahn, BB&N 2. Larry Roberts, ARPA 3. Steve Carr, UCLA 4. Jeff Rulifson, UTAH 5. Ron Stoughton, UCSB 6. Steve Crocker, UCLA Reproduction if desired may be handled locally. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3.html
- CarlRJ 7y ago
- sonofgod 7y agoHope someone's remembered to renew it. :P
- WarOnPrivacy 7y agoYeah - it expires tomorrow
- nirui 7y agoDomain Name: SYMBOLICS.COM Registry Domain ID: 57551_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.networksolutions.com Registrar URL: http://networksolutions.com Updated Date: 2020-01-16T08:51:05Z Creation Date: 1985-03-15T05:00:00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC Probably renewed by an automatic system. Don't even think about it :D
- thought_alarm 7y agoI wonder what the first UUCP nodes were named.
- wolfgang42 7y agoNot sure about UUCP specifically, but a persistent problem until the introduction of DNS seems to have been that various places in the network sometimes had different names for a single host. Check out the discussion referenced from RFC 298, “What we hope is an official list of host names”: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc289.html http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc289.html
- ck2 7y agoThis made me go look up when Musk bought x.com, turns out only 1999, thought it was older
- Jaruzel 7y agoWhat does he do with it? The page you get is a simple 'x' only. I am hoping he has loads of stuff on hidden urls, and uses it for personal email or something. If he's just sitting on it doing nothing, then that's just plain wrong.
- macittuna 7y agoX.com was registered in 1993 but bought by Musk in 1999. He lost the domain name by leaving the Paypal but bought back the domain name from Paypal in 2017: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/884580654117076992 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/884580654117076992 X.com is one of the few single-character domain names that created before IANA’s restriction of single-letter and single-digit domain names registration in December 1993.
- sumosudo 7y agox.com/musk has a y Or any /<something> results in a y
- CountSessine 7y agoIs this the same Symbolics that came out of the MIT AI lab? With the LISP machines?
- cpr 7y agoYes.
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- Mountain_Skies 7y agoAlso creators of the crazy Space Cadet keyboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-cadet_keyboard
- steveeq1 7y agoI wish they still made keyboards like that. I'm curious to know the "feel"
- gumby 7y agoThe CADR space cadet had a spongy feel, probably because of the large size and plastic case. A sad dependent of the Knight TV keyboards. With the 3600 series Symbolics replaced that with a solid keyboard (fewer keys though) that was more satisfying to type on. Some of those keys like thumbs up/down etc were never really used anyway.
- cpr 7y agoAs gumby says, the Space Cadet keyboards, being Microswitch Hall effect-based, were a bit spongy due to the big plastic case, but the switches themselves were dreamy. But the whole experience was still not as satisfying as the original Knight keyboards, I suspect because the Knight boards used the original, larger switches, while the Space Cadets used the smaller. Chyrosran22 on Youtube explains all this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcdN4Vzg6_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcdN4Vzg6_g and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDozftThFMw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDozftThFMw). By the way, after 40 years of despairing over the loss of Hall effect switches (I nursed a Space Cadet Livermore Labs clone from a group buy for some years into the mid-80's), there are now two keyboards using this technology, and I'm loving the one that's actually available. Steelseries Apex Pro is what's now shipping, and it's a dream. (https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Apex-Mechanical-Gaming-Keyboard/dp/B07SVJJCP3 https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Apex-Mechanical-Gaming-Ke...) The Input Club Keystone is still coming, slowly (https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keyboard https://kono.store/products/keystone-analog-mechanical-keybo...), but I'm also really looking forward to trying it.
- cayblood 7y agoWhat was the process of registering a domain name at that time? I've often dreamed about going back in time to when I was a kid and registering a bunch of domains before 1995. What would have been involved?
- mrunkel 7y agoYou sent in a text document to an email address of an actual person if I remember correctly.
- KingOfCoders 7y agoI remember when we exchanged text files with long lists of IPs for FTP servers at the university before most servers had domain names.