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Re:100 oldest .com domains by nick_a on Saturday December 13, 2008 @01:08AM (#396534)
8 of the 10 oldest domains can be tied to lisp... and to keven bacon...

1. symbolics.com: made Lisp machines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics

2. bbn.com: BBN made BBN Lisp for the PDP-1: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/index.html...

3. think.com: homepage of Thinking Machines Incorporated, the company that made lisp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/*Lisp

4. ...

5. dec.com: Digital Equipment Corporation (which got bought by compaq, which was bought by HP) made PDP microcomputers. The first interactive lisp was implemented on the PDP-1 in 1963 by Peter Deutsch http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/lisp/node5.html

6. northrop.com: northrop is still using lisp http://www.international-lisp-conference.org/2005/speakers.h...

7. xerox.com: xerox made the Xerox Lisp Machines http://www.andromeda.com/people/ddyer/lisp/

8. sri.com: SRI is still using lisp http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/it_management/sri...

9. hp.com: HP can be tied to lisp... but more strongly to keven bacon... http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/90/HPL-90-213.html

10. ...

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Re:100 oldest .com domains by stcredzero on Saturday December 13, 2008 @10:16AM (#396724)
My coworker has a symbolics.com email address. He has a (sometimes) working Lisp machine in his living room.
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Re:100 oldest .com domains by bootload on Sunday December 14, 2008 @03:00AM (#397285)
"... bbn.com: BBN made BBN Lisp for the PDP-1 ..."

bbn have been making a lot of things first ~ http://www.bbn.com/about/timeline/

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