[Hidden-tech] Domain Registrars

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 25 Mar 2018 09:14:38 -0400 Rich Roth <webmaster at hidden-tech.net> wrote:

> 
> For email, yes - only a few had web sites - those were mostly .edu, some 
> .org

And of course once of the early websites (that made use of just about all of
various forms of the <input> tag) was the Internet Pizza Server, where one
could order a [virtual] pizza with an interesting assortment of toppings... 
And it is *still* online:

https://beej.us/pizza/ 

> 
> 
> On 3/24/2018 10:34 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > At Sat, 24 Mar 2018 21:08:00 -0400 Rich Roth <webmaster at hidden-tech.net> wrote:
> >> Well - kinda - web sites maybe - this chart is kind of interesting:
> >>       http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/
> >>
> >> There were plenty of domains, more then 50 -- most were just email, lots
> >> using UUCP
> > The the most common TLDs in the beginning were .edu, .gov, .mil, .org, with
> > .com fairly rare.
> >
> >> Dtop.com - my oldest: Created Date:1992-12-31 -- which is when the
> >> domain registration started,
> >> Before that as Mik said
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/24/2018 8:23 PM, Sam McClellan wrote:
> >>> I remember that. When Bill Clinton took office there were 50 websites.
> >>> Now 1,862,225,000
> >>>
> >>> On 3/24/2018 4:51 PM, Michael Muller wrote:
> >>>> Thanks you for those who replied. Very interesting, how times have
> >>>> changed from the pre-NetSol days, back when you emailed the Internic
> >>>> directly. Mail them a $75 check and find out in a week. Wild.
> >>>>
> >>>> Mik
> >>>>
> >>>>

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