The oldest address in the .com zone is 30 years old.
Four years before the Web on the WWW, Symbolics from Massachusetts registered the first domain in the .com zone named www.symbolics.com . This happened on March 15, 1985. Thus, this domain is the oldest in the most famous domain zone of the Internet. He turned 30 this Sunday. The list of the same long-lived domains is maintained on a special Wikipedia page .
During this time, the founding company managed to cease to exist in its original form. In the 80s of the last century, she was engaged in the production and sale of LISP computers . Workstations of the 3600 series offered the user a 170 MB hard disk, a graphical Macintosh-like interface, a mouse, several CAD programs, implementations of Lisp, Fortran, C, and even the ability to process HDTV quality video. All this in 1983 cost $ 110,000.
Although these computers were once interested in DARPA for research in the field of artificial intelligence, such specialized machines did not survive the competition with the IBM PC. In 1993, Symbolics filed for bankruptcy. Later it was acquired by another company, but under the same name, it switched to selling software. Still today, Symbolics Inc sells the proprietary Genera operating system designed for Lisp computers. The second Symbolics product is the Macsyma commercial computer algebra system , which began its development at MIT.
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This is how Symbolics.com looked after the change of the company's activities:
In 2009, the domain name was purchased by an investment fund XF.com for an unnamed amount. They decided to use the domain not for their intended purpose, but as a kind of museum exhibit, which does not require any advertising, but which itself can earn well on it. The former Symbolics site, which no designer has ever worked on, moved to a new domain - symbolics-dks.com .
During this time, the founding company managed to cease to exist in its original form. In the 80s of the last century, she was engaged in the production and sale of LISP computers . Workstations of the 3600 series offered the user a 170 MB hard disk, a graphical Macintosh-like interface, a mouse, several CAD programs, implementations of Lisp, Fortran, C, and even the ability to process HDTV quality video. All this in 1983 cost $ 110,000.
Although these computers were once interested in DARPA for research in the field of artificial intelligence, such specialized machines did not survive the competition with the IBM PC. In 1993, Symbolics filed for bankruptcy. Later it was acquired by another company, but under the same name, it switched to selling software. Still today, Symbolics Inc sells the proprietary Genera operating system designed for Lisp computers. The second Symbolics product is the Macsyma commercial computer algebra system , which began its development at MIT.
')
This is how Symbolics.com looked after the change of the company's activities:
In 2009, the domain name was purchased by an investment fund XF.com for an unnamed amount. They decided to use the domain not for their intended purpose, but as a kind of museum exhibit, which does not require any advertising, but which itself can earn well on it. The former Symbolics site, which no designer has ever worked on, moved to a new domain - symbolics-dks.com .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/365237/
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