March 15, 2010 unveils a landmark event in Internet history as the dotcom celebrates it's 25th, Silver Anniversary.

The first ever domain, www.symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, 1985 and it made Internet history. Since then, the dotcom has boomed and busted and took on numerous unprecedented but revolutionary paradigm shifts. I daresay, no one, absolutely no one, back in 85 would have ever fathomed the state of the Internet 25 years later, which is what we have today.

On to a bit of nostalgia, 1995 was probably the first year I started thinking that domain names were cool. Year 2000 was when I had my first 2 domain names together with a friend. Nostalgically speaking, it's definitely been quite a journey. :)

Alright, one final morsel of trivia before I take off... I did a whois on symbolics.com and here's part of the dump:

[root@localhost ~]# whois symbolics.com
[Querying whois.internic.net]
[Redirected to whois.networksolutions.com]
[Querying whois.networksolutions.com]
[whois.networksolutions.com]

   Domain Name: SYMBOLICS.COM

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   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
      Meystedt, Aron            admin@XF.com
      XF.com Company
      PO BOX 293
      Cape Girardeau, MO 63702
      US
      573-450-8272


   Record expires on 16-Mar-2016.
   Record created on 15-Mar-1985.
   Database last updated on 16-Mar-2010 10:32:48 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   NS1.AMERINOC.COM            
   NS2.AMERINOC.COM

Happy birthday to the dotcom and all who share the same birthday. Cheers!