What's the oldest "blank" on the Internet?
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What's the oldest active domain on the Internet?
What was the first registered domain?
What's the oldest active link?
What other old web stuff can you think of?
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And this is what I see on the oldest domain in the world: http://symbolics.com/ ???
I hate what internet has become.
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Here's a back story on the oldest Networked email: http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html
According to Wikipedia and itself, http://symbolics.com/ was the first registered .com domain name and is still active.
Someone could argue that the oldest active link is a telegraph line that's still hung and running somewhere, but DNS in general would be a better, and more precise still the invention of HTML during 1990-93 with anchors.
Tim Berners-Lee's HTML editor screen shot: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/tims_editor
And HTML in general: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/MarkUp.html
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