Symbolics.com, internet's first domain, celebrates 28th year

Few may know it, but the very first domain on the World Wide Web just marked its 28th birthday last March 15.

 

Symbolics.com was the first domain name on the internet as we know it today, registered on March 15, 1985.

 

"Today, let’s give congratulations to the former employees of the Symbolics Computer Company – although the company has ceased operations, their efforts and pioneering spirit will live on for a very long time, as we remember them every 15th of March," said e-businessman Aron Meystedt, the present owner of the domain. 

 

Meystedt said the first owner of the domain, the now-defunct Symbolics Computer Company, "had the foresight to be the first entity on the planet to register a domain name."

 

Today, he said Symbolics.com remains the first and oldest registered domain "of approximately 250,000,000 registered domain names on the Internet."

 

He added he presently uses the Symbolics.com domain as a personal blog about domain names, e-business and startup ideas.

 

"I want to give credit where it’s due today – and that credit doesn’t belong to me.  I’m just a guy who was fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time to acquire a neat piece of Internet history, I know that," he said.

 

He noted the other four domains that round out the original five registrations include BBN.com, Think.com, MCC.com, and DEC.com.

 

A separate article on "The Daily Dot" noted Symbolics.com was registered on the year that: Bill Watterson published his first "Calvin and Hobbes" strip, Mike Tyson debuted as a pro boxer,  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was born.

 

"In Internet years, Symbolics is ancient, a veritable methuselah," it added.

 

The Daily Dot also noted the original Symbolics computer company was based in Massachusetts and built computer systems that ran on the LISP software language. – KDM, GMA News