Daily Archive for December 3rd, 2007

Arrogance gets you enshrined in Epcot

Published on December 3, 2007 in Apple and Technology. 1 Comment

Apparently, being on the board of directors at the Walt Disney Company has its perks.  Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple, Inc. will be enshrined on the Spaceship Earth ride at Disney World’s Epcot Center in Orlando, FL.  He will be part of the history of communications as told by Disney.  The exhibit will feature Jobs in the garage creating the first Apple computer.  Unfortunately, however, Steve Wozniak, the other co-founder of Apple and the actual creator of the first Apple computers, will not be part of the attraction.  It just goes to show you what an arrogant hack Steve Jobs truly is and how easy it is to abuse positions of power.

Found it at Boing Boing.

First 100 Dot Coms

Published on December 3, 2007 in Fun Stuff, Internet and Technology. Closed

While browsing Slashdot this morning, I found a post about the first 100 .com domains ever registered (the site is actually on the longest domain ever registered).  The first .com was symbolics.com and apparently still exists.  Actually, a bunch of them are still in existence today… ibm.com, hp.com, apple.com, att.com (and many others).  Check out the list.  It’s pretty good history of the big companies of the mid-80′s.