Jumping on Online Biz Back in 1990's

An article posted by a new vintage store in Granada Hills:  One Stop Vintage Shop led us to wonder about other similar stores (aside from AntiqueRow in Burbank on Magnolia). We discovered in the East SFV: All Things and More with a clever domain: Thrift-Store.com.  

Which led us to wonder about the unhyphenated domain ThriftStore.com: We checked WhoIs.com and discovered it was registered in 1996 & expires 2025.  Whereas our local east-valley Thrift-store.com was registered in August 1997. Which when you consider how long it took for vintage stores, antique stores, etc. to come aboard any presence on the internet, those people at Thrift-Store.com were very insightful.  

Prior to "Intranet", a public network, there was "Intranet" a closed network (gov't, academia, large corporations)

"Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN."  Two years later on August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world, again by Berners-Lee, ,at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN. 

The World's First Website Launched 30 Years Ago : NPR   

Back To When It All Started: 3 Decades Of The World Wide Web : NPR

 So, who was jumping on registering domain names?  Obviously, the legal department of large corporations and retailers........but not necessarily all of them.  However, in case someone asks:

March 15, 1985 Symbolics.com was the first non-gov't registered domain (registration is actually an arbitrary system as is the ICANN fee!)  

Xerox followed suit.........9 months later. Founded in 1906 as The Haloid Photographic Company. It manufactured photographic paper and equipment.

However, it was the already established technology company with a 45 year history, Hewlett-Packard now HP, that waited another year before registering HP.com in March 1986.   (HP was founded January 1, 1939, the names of two electrical-engineering graduates of Stanford University and started out making sophisticated instrumentation - such as oscillators)  10 Oldest Domains on the Internet - Oldest.org. 

But it was #5 which heralded the "take a noun and make it a domain...a website". Think.com owned by "The Thinking Machines Co.".  While the domain and "Thinking Machines" are no longer active, albeit they were bought out by Sun Microsystems, then IBM, and now Ab Initio Software; it is fascinating to note the description on Wikipedia suggests that were an AI company before we knew that moniker!!! 

The first domain registered was Darpa.com an acronym for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a part of  The U.S. Department of Defense agency. DARPA is responsible for developing emerging technologies for use by the U.S. military.

Whether you are looking for eclectic, fancy dresses, or clever repurposing furniture with gorgeous colors and decals either the newer "One Stop Vintage Shop" or "All Things and More" will allow you to step back in time and browse around at a world prior to our intelligence becoming artificial and our heads were in a different cloud.

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