25 years of .com domain names

This is a brief history of the Internet: Initiated by the ARPANET in 1969; the protocol used on the Internet called TCP/IP was developed in 1974; Domain Name System (DNS) designed by Jon Postel, Paul Mockapetris, and Craig Partridge in 1983; a Massachusetts computer systems firm registered the first .com Internet domain name on March 15, 1985; and Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web in 1990. 

First 10 .com domains:

  • Symbolics.com - March 15, 1985
  • BBN.com - April 24, 1985
  • Think.com - May 24, 1985
  • MCC.com - July 11, 1985
  • DEC.com - Sept. 30, 1985
  • Northrop.com - Nov. 7, 1985
  • Serox.com - Jan. 9, 1986
  • SRI.com - Jan. 17, 1986
  • HP.com - March 3, 1986
  • Bellcore.com - March 5, 1986

[via SFGate]

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