Über-geeks should know this already

I.E., the “faceslap-dot-jaypeg” types. Ask one of those nimrods- I bet they know it. It’s probably on the MIT entrance exam.

Myself, I had to steal the information from another blog, which is where I get pretty much all “my ideas” for posts. But I thought it was interesting- I’m kinda into useless trivia. Matter of fact, I should do another post of completely worthless knowledge soon. Anyway, here you go.

The first dot.com ever was symbolics.com, registered on March 15, 1985. It is apparently a Virginia-based software company, and the website is still in use 28 years later, though the page looks like it could quite possibly be the original page.

The first dot-edu’s ever were cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu, and ucla.edu, all registered in April 1985.

The first dot-gov ever was css.gov, registered in June 1985.

The first dot-org ever was mitre.org, registered in July 1985.

A huge portion of the first 100 dot-coms ever registered are or were computer and/or software companies, naturally. Incidentally, apple.com was the 64th dot-com ever registered (February 19, 1987).

So anyway, there you are. You were dying to know what the first-ever dot-com was, and thanks to someone else, I was able to answer that question for you. Enjoy.

Knowledge can be dangerous

I love trivia.

Sports trivia (even though I’m not real knowledgeable on most things outside of my lifetime), Trivial Pursuit, all things pop culture, etc. I’ve been to several trivia nights and have had an absolute blast every time. Not real sure why, it’s just fun. I have to admit, I’m still bitter about one trivia night several years back where my team got hosed over the answer to a particular question about Illinois, but that’s neither here nor there. All money that night went to benefit someone’s medical expenses, and besides, it’s in the past. I’ve moved on.

It’s “The Prairie State”, not “Land of Lincoln”!! COME ON- we live in Illinois, for Pete’s sake! “The Prairie State” is the state nickname; “Land of Lincoln” is nothing more than a license plate slogan.