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tptacek on Oct 19, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: 100 Oldest .COM domain names

I'm now intensely curious about what the oldest "popular" hostnames were before there was the DNS.

Also, what were FMC, Alcoa, and DuPoint doing with domain names?

euroclydon on Oct 19, 2009 [–]

I'm assuming their researchers wanted email, to chat with their university buddies.

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