What the web's oldest domains look like today

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Here are the first domains ever registered for the Internet:

DARPA
Symbolics
BBN
Thinking Machines
MCC
DEC
Northrop

And here is what they look like today.
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  • I'm surprised that HP kept the DEC domain name.

    Dec used to be the worlds second largest computer manufacturer. They decided to sell their stuff to the average consumer. MAJOR PROBLEM #1!(Too expensive, difficult, lack of compatibility/applications, etc.... It wasn't made for the average consumer! FORGET IT!) They of course decided to package stuff for that. MAJOR PROBLEM #2!(Printing, and shipping costs climbed.) They THEN told their OEMs to GO TO HELL.(Reduced sellers and evangelists, and cut down on apps, etc...) MAJOR PROBLEM #3! THEN they had fights with MS and INTEL!(Hurt relations, income, technology, etc...)

    It is a SHAME! They were on the PRECIPICE of a really nice platform. Anyway, they went bankrupt, and parts of the company were spread all over. You REALLY have to wonder how they could have been SO dumb. I predicted their downfall a couple years before it happened.

    Steve
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    • Steve,

      Your knowledge about all things computer never ceases to amaze me!

      That is, when I can think straight again once my head quits spinning after I read your posts, lol! :p


      Terra
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  • Back in the day I sold corporate accounts for Businessland, a PC/Apple retailer. We received one of the new NeXT computers, I think around 90-91. It blew me away. You could actually send audio files as an email. Click Record, speak, save, send. Blew me away. Great build quality as you would expect from Jobs.

    Anyway, this list of first internet sites made me wonder how Tim Berners-Lee developed hyperlink text, which led me to his Wikipedia page:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

    Check out the picture of the "first server" of the World Wide Web. A NeXT!

    Nerd History, my new tech trivia TV show coming to you in 2014.
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    • Well, frankly the next WAS heavily based on UNIX and PARC! All, or at least MOST, of the GUI stuff NEXT was known for was in PARC! And it is WELL known that though windows is "based on macintosh" and NEXT was "based on macintosh", MACINTOSH was BASED ON PARC!

      As for hyperlinks, HTML is based on SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia implies that that hyperlinks may predate NEXT by as much as 2 years! BTW Xwindows *****DEMANDS***** hypertext like capability! It uses it with EVERYTHING! IT was created FOUR years before the NEXT computer. It was released as X11 a year before the NEXT came out.

      LINUX came out in 1991, and was a mere SHADOW of what it is now, so implementing X was FAR more expensive back then than now. The average UNIX O/S cost OVER $1000, whereas TODAY it is virtually FREE. Had Linux come out a few years earlier, all other things being equal, HTTP/HTML would probably have been done on LINUX!

      Steve
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