I myself worked at Bellcore some time after this, when things were still
interesting and Bellcore was the 400lb Gorilla in all things optical.
Bellcore (now Telcordia) has suffered under consistently unimaginative Bungee
bosses, arguably the most intellectual property in one place incredibly
squandered (I'd say far more than Xerox PARC).
-TD> From: rah@shipwright.com> Subject: toad.com In World's First 100 .com
Domains> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:50:05 -0500> To: cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net> >
cypherpunks,> > Note toad.com, August 18 1987. :-)> > I believe John Gilmore
started cypherpunks@toad.com in September-ish > of 1992 or so, after Tim May
and Eric Hughes hosted the first > physical cypherpunks meeting.> > After
using a buddy's password to the MIT/Sloan student Nexis account > to research
on-line cash payment and reading about cypherpunks there > in an article by
Kevin Kelly in the Whole Earth Quarterly, I > subscribed to
cypherpunks@toad.com, and my first post was in May of > 1994, or so. But,
living in Boston, I never went to a physical > meeting, though I've met lots
of cypherpunks face-to-face in many > other places since...> > Seeing
pyramid.com was a blast from the past. I first used Unix > seriously on a
Pyramid machine in the first half of 1986 or so. It > had Gosling's (boo,
hiss! Not Pure!) emacs on it, and, a flurry of > keystroke-recorded macro
building and multiple telnet shell windows > later, I had practically
automated my third-shift (real-live blue- > smock and glass-wall) Production
Expeditor job at the University of > Chicago's Computation Center to about
half an hour a night most > nights. On my way out the door to Boston, I did
the last week more or > less remotely by dial-up. Lots of usenet news read,
baseball-bat- > sized cigars burned, pizza for "breakfast", and self-taught
cross- > harp harmonica playing (not necessarily in that order...:-)) in Mr. >
Stallman's honor as a result of that discovery...> > Obligatory Four
Yorkshiremen thread to follow here, I'm sure. :-).> > Cheers,> RAH> ------> >
thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/ >
first71.html>> > > > WORLD'S FIRST .COM> > THE LONGEST LIST OF THE LONGEST
STUFF AT THE LONGEST DOMAIN NAME AT > LONG LAST> What was the world's first
.com?> Just what would the site with the world's longest domain name be >
without mentioning what the world's first dot com was> Now were sure many of
you think you know and some really do know, but > those that think it was
think.com better think again, think.com was > the third...we think.> The DNS
was created in 1984 and in 1985 top level domains were > defined. The first
top level domains were COM, ORG, EDU, GOV, MIL and > ccTLD.> In April 1985
cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu were the > first registered domain
names.> The first .gov was css.gov and was registered in June 1985.> The first
.org was mitre.org and was registered in July 1985.> Now for the first .com
which was registered on March 15 1985 and it > was symbolics.com which still
happens to be up and running, although > not much to look at.> > Now for the
first 100 registered domains:> SYMBOLICS.COM> March 15 1985> BBN.COM> April 24
1985> THINK.COM> May 24 1985> MCC.COM> July 11 1985> DEC.COM> September 30
1985> NORTHROP.COM> November 7 1985> XEROX.COM> January 9 1986> SRI.COM>
January 17 1986> HP.COM> March 3 1986> BELLCORE.COM> March 5 1986> IBM.COM>
March 19 1986> SUN.COM> March 19 1986> INTEL.COM> March 25 1986> TI.COM> March
25 1986> ATT.COM> April 25 1986> GMR.COM> May 8 1986> TEK.COM> May 8 1986>
FMC.COM> July 10 1986> UB.COM> July 10 1986> BELL-ATL.COM> August 5 1986>
GE.COM> August 5 1986> GREBYN.COM> August 5 1986> ISC.COM> August 5 1986>
NSC.COM> August 5 1986> STARGATE.COM> August 5 1986> BOEING.COM> September 2
1986> ITCORP.COM> September 18 1986> SIEMENS.COM> September 29 1986>
PYRAMID.COM> October 18 1986> ALPHACDC.COM> October 27 1986> BDM.COM> October
27 1986> FLUKE.COM> October 27 1986> INMET.COM> October 27 1986> KESMAI.COM>
October 27 1986> MENTOR.COM> October 27 1986> NEC.COM> October 27 1986>
RAY.COM> October 27 1986> ROSEMOUNT.COM> October 27 1986> VORTEX.COM> October
27 1986> ALCOA.COM> November 5 1986> GTE.COM> November 5 1986> ADOBE.COM>
November 17 1986> AMD.COM> November 17 1986> DAS.COM> November 17 1986>
DATA-IO.COM> November 17 1986> OCTOPUS.COM> November 17 1986> PORTAL.COM>
November 17 1986> TELTONE.COM> November 17 1986> 3COM.COM> December 11 1986>
AMDAHL.COM> December 11 1986> CCUR.COM> December 11 1986> CI.COM> December 11
1986> CONVERGENT.COM> December 11 1986> DG.COM> December 11 1986>
PEREGRINE.COM> December 11 1986> QUAD.COM> December 11 1986> SQ.COM> December
11 1986> TANDY.COM> December 11 1986> TTI.COM> December 11 1986> UNISYS.COM>
December 11 1986> CGI.COM> January 19 1987> CTS.COM> January 19 1987>
SPDCC.COM> January 19 1987> APPLE.COM> February 19 1987> NMA.COM> March 4
1987> PRIME.COM> March 4 1987> PHILIPS.COM> April 4 1987> DATACUBE.COM> April
23 1987> KAI.COM> April 23 1987> TIC.COM> April 23 1987> VINE.COM> April 23
1987> NCR.COM> April 30 1987> CISCO.COM> May 14 1987> RDL.COM> May 14 1987>
SLB.COM> May 20 1987> PARCPLACE.COM> May 27 1987> UTC.COM> May 27 1987>
IDE.COM> June 26 1987> TRW.COM> July 9 1987> UNIPRESS.COM> July 13 1987>
DUPONT.COM> July 27 1987> LOCKHEED.COM> July 27 1987> ROSETTA.COM> July 28
1987> TOAD.COM> August 18 1987> QUICK.COM> August 31 1987> ALLIED.COM>
September 3 1987> DSC.COM> September 3 1987> SCO.COM> September 3 1987>
GENE.COM> September 22 1987> KCCS.COM> September 22 1987> SPECTRA.COM>
September 22 1987> WLK.COM> September 22 1987> MENTAT.COM> September 30 1987>
WYSE.COM> October 14 1987> CFG.COM> November 2 1987> MARBLE.COM> November 9
1987> CAYMAN.COM> November 16 1987> ENTITY.COM> November 16 1987> KSR.COM>
November 24 1987> NYNEXST.COM> November 30 1987
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