July 29, 2008

The oldest websites

For many of us it would seem that the internet has been around for all of time, but there some people who actually remember life before the internet. However, in those early pioneering days of HTML who were the people with their fingers on the pulse of technology, who actually bought those first domain names?

Rank - Registered Date - Domain Name

1 - 15-March-1985 - SYMBOLICS.COM

2 - 24-April-1985 - BBN.COM

3 - 24-May-1985 - THINK.COM

4 - 11-July-1985 - MCC.COM

5 - 30-September-1985 - DEC.COM

6 - 07-November-1985 - NORTHROP.COM

7 - 09-January-1986 - XEROX.COM

8 - 17-January-1986 - SRI.COM

9 - 03-March-1986 - HP.COM

10 - 05-March-1986 - BELLCORE.COM

11 - 19-March-1986 - IBM.COM

11 - 19-March-1986 - SUN.COM

13 - 25-March-1986 - INTEL.COM

13 - 25-March-1986 - TI.COM

15 - 25-April-1986 - ATT.COM

16 - 08-May-1986 - GMR.COM

16 - 08-May-1986 - TEK.COM

18 - 10-July-1986 - FMC.COM

18 - 10-July-1986 - UB.COM

20 - 05-August-1986 - BELL-ATL.COM

You may have expected to see some of the famous names there, but this was for those who were really knew what they were doing off, just look at those two letter domains.

Source [Daily Gyan]