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[Justin]

Out of nowhere comes to my mind.... which was the first domains registered on Internet?

 

[Virality]

Symbolics.com was the first registered domain name on 15 March 1985.

 

[vinaya]

Symbolics.com was the first registered domain name on 15 March 1985.

I thought it was Google. LOL. Google popped in my mind just because Google dominates the world wide web.
Can you tells us what was symbolics about. Were was symbolics registered (which domain registrar)?

 

[rajesh]

Symbolics.com was the first domain name registered on the Internet but it was not the first domain 'created'. I hope you understand the difference between 'officially registered' and 'created'. :) The first domain ever created was nordu.net (a Scandinavian research company) on Jan 1, 1985.

 

[yeppeo]

This is really interesting. 1985 was already 31 years ago, and it's crazy to think where the internet is today.

 

[SirJoe]

This is really interesting. 1985 was already 31 years ago, and it's crazy to think where the internet is today.

This is true but the real growth hasn't been that long ago, it only really took off when the internet was easily accessible to all. There was a time when you didn't only have to pay the local call but you also had to pay a monthly fee along with the connected time.

 

[Vanilla Sky]

I thought it was Google. LOL. Google popped in my mind just because Google dominates the world wide web.
Can you tells us what was symbolics about. Were was symbolics registered (which domain registrar)?

I find this answer to be incredibly hilarious. Even if you're one of those folks who think Al Gore was the father of the internet and that the internet became a 'thing' in the 90s, Google was a relative latecomer (established in 1998). Sites like Amazon (1994), Yahoo (1994), and AltaVista (1995) predate it by a good margin.

 

[yeppeo]

This is true but the real growth hasn't been that long ago, it only really took off when the internet was easily accessible to all. There was a time when you didn't only have to pay the local call but you also had to pay a monthly fee along with the connected time.

True. Nowadays accessing the internet is almost like drinking a cup of water :) I'm not that old and I remember that I could only access it at school (and everything was so slow it hurts to think about it). The Internet has good and bad things, but in my opinion the good overcome the bad in many ways. I would love to know where it will be in like 100 years from now.

 

[missiemouse]

Here's a list of the oldest domains registered on the internet:

• Symbolics.com - March 15, 1985
• DARPA.org - January 1, 1985
• DARPA.edu - January 1, 1985
• DARPA.net - January 1, 1985
• DefenseDataNetwork.mil - January 1, 1985
• DARPA.gov - January 1, 1985

Symbolics was a computer manufacturer which is now defunct. The domain name Symbolics.com was sold in 2009 to XF.com investments. It actually makes me sad since I just read that this software was used for the Free Willy movie which I loved.

I hope this helps!

 

[yeppeo]

Pretty informative, thank you very much for sharing :)

 

[Petesede]

I thought it was Google. LOL. Google popped in my mind just because Google dominates the world wide web.
Can you tells us what was symbolics about. Were was symbolics registered (which domain registrar)?

Definitely wasn´t Google... Google didn´t even start as a company until the web was almost 20 years old. In fact, there were dozens of search engines before Google. Excite, Yahoo, Webcrawler etc.. just off the top of my head. The reason those lost to Google is because they had a search engine, but decided they should spend their time adding things to the homepage of the searchpage. Many had a ton of content, free email etc.. so they all ended up with a very cluttered homepage, and they spent very little time making sure their search results were good. As a webmaster it was very easy to cheat them, and end up very high in search rankings for searches that were completely unrelated to what was on your website. I was frequently able to get a top ten ranking on ´Britney Spears´ even on websites about hotels.

Google ´won´ the search engine wars because they focused, early on, on providing really good search results. With other search engines at that time, you could search for a term and not find a real result in the top 20.

 

[Petesede]

Here's a list of the oldest domains registered on the internet:

• Symbolics.com - March 15, 1985
• DARPA.org - January 1, 1985
• DARPA.edu - January 1, 1985
• DARPA.net - January 1, 1985
• DefenseDataNetwork.mil - January 1, 1985
• DARPA.gov - January 1, 1985

Symbolics was a computer manufacturer which is now defunct. The domain name Symbolics.com was sold in 2009 to XF.com investments. It actually makes me sad since I just read that this software was used for the Free Willy movie which I loved.

I hope this helps!

I was hoping diewesleydie.com was registered in the top 5. Wesley Crusher was one of the characters on the show Star Trek Next Generation and was hated by a very large portion of viewers. The whole diewesleydie was one of the earliest ´social´ things that happened on the internet as there were newsgroups and forums about him VERY early.

Wil Wheaton played the character Wesley, and still is not liked. You see this get used frequently when he appears on The Big Bang Theory, playing himself.

 

[moneyman]

I thought it was ypaz.com since nothing that is being read here existed before then! lmao @ google being the first name registered haha that was pure comedy gold!

I wanted to reigster ShutUpWesley.com but somebody had taken it

 

[Jason76]

I'm wondering why nobody heard of the net in the 80s or early 90s. Were they purposely trying to keep it secret? Of course, on movies like WarGames, an 80s flick with Matthew Broderick, we were aware of a secret high-tech military world, but not the net.

 

[Lovely]

Nice question it helped take us back in time the first registered domain was symbolics .com but it just got faster to registered because it not as if it was the first created domain,the first created was Nordu.net which was yet to be registered.

 

[Yugocean]

On January 1, 1985 when DARPA started Net/Org and Edu domains, the same day Scandinavian research company Nordunet registered first domain Nordu.net; it was the first domain registered. While the first .com domain name that was ever registered was Symbolics.com, on the 15th of March 1985 by the now defunct Massachusetts-based computer manufacturer Symbolics Inc.

 

[Lovely]

I'm wondering why nobody heard of the net in the 80s or early 90s. Were they purposely trying to keep it secret? Of course, on movies like WarGames, an 80s flick with Matthew Broderick, we were aware of a secret high-tech military world, but not the net.

Sometimes I wonder same because computer was well talked about but with packages or softwares but not the internet but I'm.sure it was in existence by then,well there good thing is that we have it all now and we will certainly live it out.

 

[tchisom]

If you ask google, you'll most likely get symbolics dot com.