Taking a break from marketing discount disney tickets, and to satisfy my curiosity, I went in search of the earliest adopters of the World Wide Web as we know it today and to my surprise there were WWW dns entries that go back as far as 1985…can you believe that…now who was browsing the internet back in 1985 (other than Al Gore). Anyways, the list below represents the 100 first domains ever registered on the internet…it includes some expected names, some unexpected names and some notable missing names. (NB. Entries registered on the same days are in random order on that day.)

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM

2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM

3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM

4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM

5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM

6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM

7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM

8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM

9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM

10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM

11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM

12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM

13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM

14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM

15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM

16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM

17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM

18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM

19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM

20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM

21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM

22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM

23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM

24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM

25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM

26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM

27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM

28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM

29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM

30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM

31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM

32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM

33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM

34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM

35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM

36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM

37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM

38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM

39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM

40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM

41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM

42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM

43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM

44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM

45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM

46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM

47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM

48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM

49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM

50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM

51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM

52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM

53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM

54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM

55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM

56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM

57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM

58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM

59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM

60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM

61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM

62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM

63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM

64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM

65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM

66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM

67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM

68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM

69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM

70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM

71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM

72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM

73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM

74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM

75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM

76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM

77. 27-May-1987 UTC.COM

78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM

79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM

80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM

81. 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM

82. 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM

83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM

84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM

85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM

86. 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM

87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM

88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM

89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM

90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM

91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM

92. 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM

93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM

94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM

95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM

96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM

97. 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM

97. 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM

99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM

100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

This article was researched and written by Ryan Forrester – an internet marketing professional living and working in Orlando Florida

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August 13, 2007

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