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I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to
by kingcharles 5y ago
I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also, they were FREE. I lost all mine once they introduced the $200/year registration fee, after, I believe, Unilever sent them 19,000 registration requests for each of their trademarks.
Despite domains being free, most of the web sites I would visit were simply hosted on IPs. I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. That was my DNS in 1994.
- lokimedes 5y agoAmazing how quickly it transitioned to a more mainstream web. We had internet at home in 1995-96 and I registered my first domain in 1997 - by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today.
- uncletammy 5y ago> by that time domains and DNS worked pretty much like today. And by then it was too late. It was already broken beyond repair.
- usefulcat 5y agoIn a way, one of the more prescient things I have done in my life was to register the .org for my surname in 1999. I wasn't the first, but my timing was good. I do use it, so it's not just sitting idle.
- stevekemp 5y agoI registered "steve.org.uk" in April 1999. steve.com and steve.org were registered in 1995, and 1997 respectively. So I guess I was very slow! Happily after moving from the UK to Finland I did manage to grab steve.fi, which had expired within the first year of my relocation.
- dleslie 5y ago> I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written down. Likewise! It was like having a secret code, or treasure map, and this data was much coveted among local young hackers.
- kingcharles 5y agoThere weren't many web sites, so I'll be honest, it was mostly IPs for ftp sites with upload directories that had accidentally been left open and were now filled with warez.
- gogopuppygogo 5y agoI'm a bit too young to remember the advent of the Internet but old enough to remember when the FXP scene burst onto BBS's with enough warez to fill every hard drive I could get my hands on.
- redasadki 5y agohard drive? you mean diskettes, ZIP drives, and SYQUEST cartridges
- jasonfarnon 5y agothe tape drives... 250+ MB years before iomega came along
- CrazyCatDog 5y agoIomega Zip drives— still impressed with the choice of making the drives blue. The showstopper though, was my dad’s wood modem—I don’t remember if it was plastic or real, but it was purchased from a national retailer—not homemade and way cooler than the slate of white 56k US Robotics modems that followed!
- jasonfarnon 5y agowhy write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before that something else, maybe ws_ftp.
- RobRivera 5y agoI want to return
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- openthc 5y agoIt's like having the phone numbers of different BBS to dial into back in the day. Except, the internet was always connected - which totally blew my mind!
- martin1975 5y agoI registered my UUCP node prior to 1994, so there :P...
- sethammons 5y agoan ol' buddy of mine has always claimed to have owned apple.com back in those days but he said they just took it from him one day. He would have been pretty young then, like 10 (and, yeah, that sounds right for him). Maybe he lost it because they started charging! haha.
- Rebelgecko 5y agoA former colleague (who I don't know personally, but I worked with people who did) owned sex.com for a while. Even if the stories I've heard about what it was like to own that domain were exaggerated, it was pretty insane the lengths that people would go to in order to get a domain. Basically another gold rush, but with marginally less violence against those who squatted a claim.
- kingcharles 5y agosex.com was registered really early on. I remember registering 5ex.com in the mid90s as a runner-up prize. Funny enough, dotcoms weren't as prized in the early 90s as they are now. All the c00l kids on the Internet had dotnets, so my first domain registration was eschaton.net.
- aabbcc1241 5y agoNowadays website using IP without https are blocked behind a red wall by main stream browsers
- NetOpWibby 5y agoCome to think of it, I’ve never seen a plain IP used with HTTPS.
- savef 5y agoHere's one example that came to mind: https://1.1.1.1/ https://1.1.1.1/
- NetOpWibby 5y agoOF COURSE Haha, thanks!