Randomness

[Entilzha]

First 100 .com registered domains:
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
12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
25. 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
31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
77. 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
82. 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
87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
92. 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

A lot of big names

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Wow, I didn't know they even used dot com-registration back then!

[JadziaKathryn]

Yeah. Wasn't the internet barely even invented... wait... I seem to remember the year 1983...

It's funny how we think of the internet as being a thing of the 90s because that's when it became popular for everyday. Eeek, now I'm getting unpleasant flashbacks of the AOL dialup busy signal!

[vero3110]

Yeah. Wasn't the internet barely even invented... wait... I seem to remember the year 1983...

It's funny how we think of the internet as being a thing of the 90s because that's when it became popular for everyday. Eeek, now I'm getting unpleasant flashbacks of the AOL dialup busy signal!

Actually, Internet has been around since the early 70's. It was http/html and the web browser that were invented in the early 90's.

Vero

[dark_rain]

Brings a evil smile to my face to see that Sun Microsystems (sun.com) beat Microsoft to it! Go *nix!

[JadziaKathryn]

Ooops. Shows how much I know about technology, hmm?

[Elessar]

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention this to everyone:

I actually got argued into watching Shadow Puppets once again by my roommate who hadn't seen it, when I said how bad it was.

The second time around when we weren't all expecting it to be horrible like we were in Vegas, it was actually a little better

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Saw this online article and thought I'd share: 5 awesome sci-fi inventions (that would actually suck)

And three of them are inherently Trekkian.

[JadziaKathryn]

Crude language, but good points. Although I'm not entirely sure about replicators being so bad. It makes a kind of utopia, but I don't know if it'd be the end of civilization.

[Entilzha]

It's 6 in the morning and I sill can't sleep

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

Today I had the tyres of my car changed to winter tires, and of course all the snow is now gone and the temperature is above zero...

[Linda]

KTR, how are your winter tires different from your summer tyres? Are you allowed to use studded tires with metal pegs in them? Or chains on your tyres?


Sorry for jumping around with the spelling, LOL. Too lazy to go back and correct to the same spelling - either way.

[CX]

Most winter tires have metal or plastic studs in them to help them get a little more grip in snow and ice, but the problem is timing it right when you put them on and take them off. Not only are they annoying as hell to listen to going down the road, but if you run them too long on bare pavement it will wear the studs down, and those studs make winter tires more expensive than regular tires to replace.

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

KTR, how are your winter tires different from your summer tyres? Are you allowed to use studded tires with metal pegs in them?

Yes, they have pegs in them.

It's not allowed to put those tires on before November 1st. And you have to remove them sometime in the spring (I'll have to check when).

[blacknblue]

They also do nasty things to the blacktop and/or your driveway. But on ice they can really save your ass. Especially in steep terrain.