ever stop by a site and wonder how old is this **** well here's a list the 100 oldest sites around that are still on the net

Who knew you could register domain names in 1985?

Rank

Create date Domain name
1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
11= 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
13= 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16= 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
16= 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18= 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
18= 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
20= 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
30= 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40= 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
40= 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
42= 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
42= 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
50= 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
61= 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65= 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
65= 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
68= 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73= 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
73= 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76= 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
76= 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
81= 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
81= 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
86= 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
89= 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
97= 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
97= 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

hey man,

where did You get this Informations from?
can you give me the link where you find them from ? and also does anyone have the informations about the world's first events and acheivements.

like the first person who reached the north pole and south pole?
the the first formed constitutional Government?

the members who were in that Team

the worlds first motor car accident?


and so on,


Please Reply to this post.


cheers

Varsoft

got it out of a book man.. um saw it somewhere on the net a few days ago, but can't remember what site as for all that other stuff could always try the holy grail of search engines google

interesting piece of trivia. Didn't know domain registrations existed since 1985

Interesting, considering the internet makes possible the technology that the book 1984 was based - A communications system capable of gathering audio and video from peoples homes and public places - delivering the info to a central HQ - and filtering out the members of society who didn't agree with the political machine. Strange parallel that the earliest year people were registering domain names was right about 1984.

- also the same year Apple unveiled that commercial based on the book 1984 that was pulled after it aired once because it was so creepy

Apple - First Personal computers

1984 - Book outlining governmental control of populations using centralized communications systems to monitor thier activities.

Apple opens pandora's box of personal computing making possible a future centralized communication system - year 1984

Apple = Evil?

Adam and Eve eat of a forbidden fruit and thereby become concious of the struggle of good and evil - the forbidden fruit??

An apple.


Put that one in your pipe and smoke it.....

I think it was interesting to see who where some of the first companys to register domains. some of them you wouldnt have guesed like Fluke and TTI. Kind of interesting that these are the bigest companys in there field now. Gues that is what being ahead of the game will get you.

lol you ever see their commercial they made in 1984? reminds me of THX 1138 and the book 1984

http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/adclass/1984.apple_ad.mov
WARNING: File size 13mb and you need quicktime

psst... *whisper* it's supposed to, read the last second of the ad - "You'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'"

psst... *whisper* it's supposed to, read the last second of the ad - "You'll see why 1984 won't be like '1984'"

Why doesn't the THX site load ? It just loads a blank page & stops. Anyways, RGF - really interesting post. Always does good to spruce up your trivia with this kind of "intellectual" tidbits... Great job.

i've never even heard of any of those websites

lol you had alot of free time on ur hands, but good post man

Cool, it's a list of who had the best R&D budget!

Wow, I forgot to see that movie... I only saw the re-make commercial once, i guess it was a limited showing.

After being at thx's website I think I will love to see the remake. The site is completelely unconventional and I'm not sure I saw it all... awesome!

Sweet, thats an insteresting list.

I can see IBM, Sun, but i see no Microsoft or Apple

I could of sworn there were domains over than that. I thought I just saw one today that claimed to have existed back in the 1970's. I don't know the URL, but all I know about it, is that it's some web hosting service or something.

Hmm, that's interesting though.

very interesting! lol, i'm having fun clicking each site. Amazing how these sites are so old...who would have thought they'd last all these years? Sheesh. I guess the only way to have a site that will last that long is if you use your own server because regular hosting will probably shut down after a while...even paid hosting =P

More cool facts:
Internet Created in 1969
http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
It was first called Arpanet
First note ever sent on the web: http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html

It's interesting to look through them all..nice list. Where did you find it anyway?
Man those sites are old, but they've lasted over 20 years some of them..

where did you find that list out? I think that is insane, are they still available to visit?

That's so cool! Thanks for posting that. I wan't even aware that there was internet back then. Just think, those sites are twenty years old!

I never thought about what sites would be the oldest.... are most of those government sites ?

Actually I do not believe any of them are government sites. If you look at them, some belong to major corporations like Xerox and Adobe, the others are probably just science technology sites (i didn't visit any of them ;D)

Ummm... the first domain names were around before I was born! Some of those sites look like they used paint to make the images, which I'm sure if they made them in 1985 that the program couldn't have been too much better. But some of those sites have obviously had some upgrades. Like XEROX, it is still a major business so it upgraded to stay current.

That's pretty awesome that sites have been around since 1985 though. Never thought about the oldest sites until I looked at this thread.

Tell me about the newest websites...

So http://symbolics.com/ was the first website ever made?

Nice list.

However, the first 'websites' are those made by the man from here in Yorkshire that developped the first 'Intranet' system (1970s).

And then it was the ones made by the military a little bit later on.

These aren't the oldest websites, these are just the oldest domains that were publically registered. These aren't even the oldest domains, as government agencies and universities had domain names going back to the late 70s/early 80s. In short, this is just a list of the first 100 companies to go online, which is still pretty cool, but not what the title promised...

Interesting bit of information! That's weird that they were registered before I was even born

hmmm....i wonder when microsoft.com was created?

this is something i came across the other day, and though you might be interested

If you have small children in your life, chances are you've been given a "stained glass" project to decorate your home or office. These offerings range from colored glue painted onto windows to dry to a translucent finish, to little plastic beads painstakingly dropped into a metal design frame and baked in the oven, to clear plastic painted with translucent stains, to tracing paper colored with markers.

Okay, so they don't really look like real stained glass. But close one eye and don't look too closely and you can still get the wondrous effect of prisms of light dancing through rich colors.

Imitations of stained glass are nothing new. America's glass industry boomed during the second half of the 19th century putting the once rare and expensive stained glass in the hands of everyone from homeowners of modest means to shop keepers to pastors of rural churches. And almost at the same time, entrepreneurs were trying to figure out newer, cheaper, better ways to get the effect of the colored panels.

The Manufacturer and Builder magazine from June 1890 describes at length of the the early stained glass imitations.

"One of the most noteworthy effects directly traceable to the educational influence of the Centennial Exhibition, was the immediate and pronounced interest created in decorative art in all its features, but especially in the matter of household decoration...

...It does not follow necessarily that the gratification of a love for artistic decoration must be accompanied by a great outlay of money...The ingenuity of inventors has been enlisted in the case...Entitled to a prominent place of inventions of this order, is the stained glass substitute which most of our readers will recognize at once from the appearance of the accompanying illustrations. The effects which it is possible to produce by the extremely simple artifice employed in this process, are really surprising for their richness of coloring and beauty. And it is not to be wondered at that the material has come into very general use.

The substitute in question, which is the most effective imitation of the genuine colored glass, is formed of thin, tough sheets of linen paper, so prepared to give the effects of the opaque leads and richly colored glasses close enough to defy anything but the closest inspection to determine the imitation from the real. The paper is prepared in a great variety of designs, suitable for windows of all sizes, and therefore adapted for use in houses, churches, stores and public buildings, to represent the effects of the most beautiful stained glass, at comparatively trifling cost.

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The material may be readily applied by any person of ordinary intelligence who follows the directions given in the circular of information sent with it, so that no difficulty is imposed upon those residing in town, village or country who may propose to use it. The material, when properly applied, is remarkable durable considering its character, and by observing the precaution of applying an occasional coat of varnish, the freshness and beauty of a design of this kind may be preserved for a number of years.

The special advantages of this species of decoration for vestibule, lobby and bathroom windows are obvious. The material admits the light freely, softening and mellowing it, but completely obstructs the view from without. For these situations the substitute has grown into very extended favor.

For the same reason the material is largely used for the decoration of back windows that may have an objectionable outlook.

The manufacturer of this ingeniously prepared material has issued a catalog containing an extensive collection of specimens, colored to exhibit the effect of the material in place, and embracing richly decorated center pieces, borders, etc. in great variety from which parties may make selections of designs that please them.

Persons who may wish to introduce this style of ornamentation into their homes, may send to the manufacturer a sketch showing the number and relative positions, with size of lights in each window, who will make and send for approval drawings of some appropriate designs; or the catalogue of the manufacturer may be scanned, and the most attractive design selected therefrom.

As these have dimensions given, they need only to be referred to by the catalogue number. The material being light, can be sent by mail. The sole agent for this stained glass substitute is W.C. Young, 968 Arch street, Philadelphia."

(Source: The Manufacturer and Builder / Volume 22, Issue 6, June 1890, Library of

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