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Comment by joebananas | Hacker News Reader

Kinda sad. It's the twelfth oldest .com. Registered on the 19th of mars 1986.

For reference, 100 oldest domain names:

http://www.whoisd.com/oldestcom.php

Oracle doesn't seem to give a crap about history here. There takeover strategy has always been to try to destroy the old brand of the company and absorb what is left.

Sad sad end for a iconic company.

Wow. I was just shy of two weeks old when the oldest domain was registered.

I suppose it says something about my generation and our view of technology to consider that the internet has simply always been there for us.

It's funny, the internet was not really common until quite a bit after highschool for me. But I honestly don't really remember what people did for many common tasks before the internet. It's like that entire part of my memory was wiped clean by simple, quick and convenient access to global communication and LOLcats.

Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

     - Douglas Adams

I'll always consider people who are currently under 30 Internet noobs :) leave the real innovation to people who know what they're doing.

would have to agree. i honestly don't think the younger crowd (ie people 20-25) really gets technology in the same way.

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