Symbolics.com - First Internet Domain registered sold

[PeterCH]

Believe it or not, it wasn't internet.com or dot.com that was acquired when the Internet was young. Instead, it was the somewhat off-the-wall name of symbolics.com. The Symbolics company was the first to use an internet domain name to guide Internet viewers to its line of Lisp machines, which were single-user computers optimized to run the Lisp programming language. XF.com Investments, which is a Missouri-based Internet investments firm, has managed to secure the domain name from its original owner for an undisclosed sum and XF's CEO was quick to proclaim his excitement over the acquisition. It's hard to say why this domain name was the first registered back on March 15, 1985, but for obvious reasons it holds a special place in history. There has been one original owner for nearly 25 years. Over that time, we've seen the Internet grow to the tune of 180,000,000+ registered domains, and thousands more are being added each and every day.

From: Link.

 

[w1z4rd]

Yeah I saw this yesterday or the day before, interesting news.

 

[PeterCH]

Yeah I saw this yesterday or the day before, interesting news.

Yeah, I went online first in Feb of 1995. The WWW was such a wild place and without the BS ads, and usenet was full of life. That was 10 years AFTER symbolics.com was registered, although the .arpa domain names were registered prior to it, of course.

 

[w1z4rd]

I was online in 92. BBS was teh leet.

 

[PeterCH]

I was online in 92. BBS was teh leet.

Never had BBS access - but it was painfully slow as my computer science teacher ran such a BBS. Usenet was my first foray into the internet. Then we used TRUMPET WINSOCK to connect on Win 3.11 on the uni network to the web. That and Netscape 1 fit on one 1.44 floppy disk (stiffy). . Ah and the old text based usenet readers - and the decoding of interesting binaries.....