[ Retro Scan of the Week ] VINTAGECOMPUTING.COM
November 2nd, 2015 by Benj Edwards
“I REPEAT, THIS IS NOT AN INVOICE”
Although Vintage Computing and Gaming turns 10 years old today, I actually registered the “vintagecomputing.com” domain name back on June 8, 2000. This is what Network Solutions sent to me in the mail. I was only 19 years old — now I’m 34. Time flies.
It wasn’t the first domain I’d ever registered, but it was an early one. I wanted to use vintagecomputing.com for an online computer museum that would show off my vintage computer and video game collection. I never got around to creating that.
Another project got in the way of all of those plans, and I ended up working on music at Request-A-Song.com instead until October 2005.
I finally put my vintagecomputing.com domain to good use — over five years later — when I decided to make a blog on that fateful day in November 2005.
Discussion Topic of the Week: What was the first domain name you ever registered?
November 2nd, 2015 at 12:35 pm
It was my last name, it was registered in 1997, and I still have it. Of course it was more expensive and painful to register back in those days.
And if I explained to someone that I had my own domain, I would usually get a blank stare.