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Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs by roryisok on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:20AM (#17406127)
I assumed it was going to be ThinkPad related. IBM or Lenovo should have snapped it up
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Re:Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs by lou1306 on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @08:19AM (#17407530)
"Think" was an actual IBM slogan well before ThinkPads. [0] (Which is also the reason behind Apple's "Think Different"). I guess the idea of using slogans as effective domain names wasn't as popular as today.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(IBM)

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