[nkozyra]

> Domain names have been actually been available for 28 years – yes, before you even knew what a computer looked like.

:grouchface:

[JohnTHaller]

Oh you mean 2 years after I taught myself to program on a Commodore 64 hooked up to a black and white TV in my bedroom? #getoffmylawn

[gumby]

It's a bit of #geoffmylawn brag but it was a much smaller community back then.

Looking at those names: I was over at #1 Symbolics quite a bit in those days (a bunch of people from the lab started the company). #3 Thinking Machines was started by my housemate Danny Hillis (I was there quite a bit visiting friends as well). I actually worked for #4 MCC and #7 Xerox (PARC in my case). I started Cygnus with John Gilmore (#84 Toad) who was previously the first employee at #12 Sun (where other founder Tiemann had also worked).

Many of the other companies on that list hold fond memories as well. Amazing!

[nkozyra]

At 35 I'm not sure I qualify for greybeard status (perhaps relatively), but when you write something like this is there some illusion that everyone reading a tech piece is under 25?

[TillE]

Even that wouldn't make sense here, because then it would be "before you were born" rather than "before you knew...".

I'd hope that anyone writing about tech would be aware of the significance of the C64, Apple IIe, etc.

[mritun]

You had a Commodore 64 ?

Kids these days...

[zwieback]

I'm afraid to admit I was an Apple ][ snob when the C64 came out although secretly I envied some of the C64's capabilities.

[JohnTHaller]

It was great. I learned how to program AND compose on it. 3 voice SID chip. I later even got a MIDI cartridge for it.