Oldest .com, Symbolics, Turns 25: Beware the Ides of March?
by Robert Quigley | 10:47 am, March 15th
Today is the twenty-fifth birthday of the oldest-registered .com domain, Symbolics.com; it’s also the Ides of March, or the anniversary of the Roman military festival when Julius Caesar was assassinated in the Roman Senate following a warning from a seer. Surely there’s a coincidental reading here? We leave that to you.
In any event: Symbolics.com was launched by the now-departed Cambridge computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc., which was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and had spun off from MIT’s AI Lab, so they were in the thick of things in the days of the early Internet. The company went bankrupt in the mid-’90s (but not before their graphics division helped animate the orca in Free Willy), and symbolics.com was sold to a domain name investment company, XF Investments, last year.
The BBC philosophizes on the ways dotcom domains have changed our lives (including a money quote to the effect that you can’t really “live an okay life” without using dotcoms every day):
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