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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
I am NOT an innovator. (But some people are.)
Seriously, I am clearly not an innovator. I came across the following list of the 100 oldest dot com domains -- thanks Craig Kobler -- and was simply blown away for a couple of reasons.
1. Check out the dates these people were registering their domain names. Earliest is in 1985.
**Back in 1985, I was listening to Depeche Mode, just getting through my Freshman year at Hillcrest Junior High in Overland Park, Kansas and dating a wonderful girl. I was also desperately trying to lose my virginity to her. She eventually succumbed and I did. At the same time I'm saying, "Man, my girlfriend smells good. I have got to put my thing in her thing" these people are saying, "You know, the miitary just opened up the Internet for people like us. We should register a domain name."
2. There was someone who you could call and register a domain name.
**Huh? I still don't know what gives godaddy.com the right to tell me that I have the rights to www.zabaduzeep.com if I pay them $6.95, but sure enough, something does. And, way back in 1985, there was someone to do it as well. Ah, commerce.
3. Here in 2005, we have just scratched the surface of what the Internet/World Wide Web can do and can do for us; what kinds of things we can put up there, download from there and look at on there; as well as how content can be delivered to everyone that wants it or to no one at all.
**What's amazing here is that 20 fucking years ago there were people at Xerox, IBM and a few months later, at companies like Apple and ATT, who did understand that this Internet, this odd group of military servers, would one day change the world.
Seriously, think of it. It's a mindfuck man. It really is. ¶ 3:19 PM 4 comments
1. Check out the dates these people were registering their domain names. Earliest is in 1985.
**Back in 1985, I was listening to Depeche Mode, just getting through my Freshman year at Hillcrest Junior High in Overland Park, Kansas and dating a wonderful girl. I was also desperately trying to lose my virginity to her. She eventually succumbed and I did. At the same time I'm saying, "Man, my girlfriend smells good. I have got to put my thing in her thing" these people are saying, "You know, the miitary just opened up the Internet for people like us. We should register a domain name."
2. There was someone who you could call and register a domain name.
**Huh? I still don't know what gives godaddy.com the right to tell me that I have the rights to www.zabaduzeep.com if I pay them $6.95, but sure enough, something does. And, way back in 1985, there was someone to do it as well. Ah, commerce.
3. Here in 2005, we have just scratched the surface of what the Internet/World Wide Web can do and can do for us; what kinds of things we can put up there, download from there and look at on there; as well as how content can be delivered to everyone that wants it or to no one at all.
**What's amazing here is that 20 fucking years ago there were people at Xerox, IBM and a few months later, at companies like Apple and ATT, who did understand that this Internet, this odd group of military servers, would one day change the world.
Seriously, think of it. It's a mindfuck man. It really is. ¶ 3:19 PM 4 comments
