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So why was Symbolics first?

• ghaff 13y ago
  It was an MIT AI Lab spinoff which helps explain why it was early. As to why it was earlier than, say, BBN though I have no idea.
  • yardie 13y ago
    BBN has an entire /8 for itself at 4.0.0.0. I'm sure whoever made that decision saw there were maybe a dozen addresses and figured, "whats the point? people can reach us at 4.3.2.1."
  • ethomson 13y ago
    BBN built the Interface Message Processor that routed ye olde arpanet.
• cstuder 13y ago
  And why is it a pure ads page now? Is this the future for every site out there?
  • DanBC 13y ago
    Because the domain keeps getting listed in various articles as "the oldest .com domain", and keeps getting people visiting it, and so it's passive income for whoever owns it.
• dfox 13y ago
  Just an assumption: they had relatively large business case for DNS and user-friendly global networking without site-specific configuration in general as they were selling what essentially amounted to free-standing workstations that did not really need centralized infrastructure. As opposed to many other workstation vendors at that time who either didn't care (e.g. Xerox) or assumed that their product would be used en-masses as part of some existing network and centrally managed (e.g. Sun).
• rjsw 13y ago
  My guess is that they just happened to be incorporating at the right time, tech companies already in existence when .com registrations were introduced that needed to do networking probably had Arpanet addresses and waited a while to switch over.