> Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know. Possibly 'io' being short for input/output. The fir

> Something else made these utterly pointless domains popular before that, but what that was, I don't know. Possibly 'io' being short for input/output. The first .io domains I remember were some programmer blogs/personal sites. Now they are just over used.