Boing-Boing includes a link the 100 oldest still-registered domains in the .com domain. The list is interesting, but reading it made me feel visionary old in Internet years.

I first got online in the fall of 1987. I don’t remember exactly when, but October is probably a safe guess. Reno told me about it and showed me how to use e-mail, then our friend
Justin helped me figure out how to email Brian at MIT and Todd at Stanford.

One of my favorite things about email was that back then, each location that the message passed through sent a little message back saying (essentially) "Your message just passed through the University of Texas," or "Your message just passed through PARC/Xerox." 

It took a message about 2 minutes and 6 or 10 nodes to reach MIT, and a little less to get from Reed to Stanford.  The line of text would interrupt whatever else I was doing — really, whoever else I was emailing — on the amber screen of the VAX terminal until it arrived.

(The fact that I found that so interesting may explain the three Maps of the Internet posters in my cubicle. I am a nerd.)

And all that started before at least 6 of the 100 oldest still-registered .coms. Maybe 7 — one registered in late October.