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From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz (Ross Clark)
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by: Ross Clark - Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:00 UTC

symbolics.com
first to be registered under the Domain Name System (DNS) process
and only five others during the rest of that year!
today there are 160,000,000 .com's alone

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by: HenHanna - Fri, 15 Mar 2024 10:57 UTC

Ross Clark wrote:

> symbolics.com
> first to be registered under the Domain Name System (DNS) process
> and only five others during the rest of that year!
> today there are 160,000,000 .com's alone

was Symbolics.com (domain name) bought by a jokester?

1. Symbolics.com: Registered on March 15, 1985, by Symbolics, a computer manufacturer (now defunct).

2. BBN.com: Registered on April 24, 1985, by BBN Technologies, a military contractor involved in early internet development.

3. Think.com: Registered on May 24, 1985, by Thinking Machines, a manufacturer of supercomputers.

4. MCC.com: Registered on July 11, 1985, by Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, a research consortium.

5. DEC.com: Registered on September 30, 1985, by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a leading computer manufacturer.

It's important to note that the exact order of registration beyond the first (Symbolics.com) might vary depending on the source. However, these five domains are well-documented as being among the earliest registered in 1985.

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by: Aidan Kehoe - Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:47 UTC

Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh HenHanna:

> was Symbolics.com (domain name) bought by a jokester?

Not in 1985; Symbolics was a serious company that manufactured Lisp machines, by all
accounts a very pleasant software development environment if one has an
interest in the Lisp programming language.

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How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’
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by: HenHanna - Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:15 UTC

On 3/15/2024 6:47 AM, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>
> Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh HenHanna:
>
> > was Symbolics.com (domain name) bought by a jokester?
>
> Not in 1985; Symbolics was a serious company that manufactured Lisp machines, by all
> accounts a very pleasant software development environment if one has an
> interest in the Lisp programming language.
>

i'd met some ppl from Symbolics...

Subject	Author
First Internet domain name registered (15-3-1985)	Ross Clark
Re: First Internet domain name registered (15-3-1985)	HenHanna
Re: First Internet domain name registered (15-3-1985)	Aidan Kehoe
Re: First Internet domain name registered (15-3-1985)	HenHanna