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Oldest dot-com address sits sadly underused 30 years after its historic registration

Someone had to go first, so on March 15, 1985, Lisp computer maker Symbolics, Inc., registered the Internet’s first dot-com address: Symbolics.com.

Sunday will mark the 30th anniversary of that registration.

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The Cambridge-headquartered company went out of business about a decade ago (though remnants live on) and in August 2009 the Symbolics.com address was sold for an undisclosed sum to XF.com Investments, whose CEO Aron Meystedt said in a press release: “For us to own the first domain is very special to our company, and we feel blessed for having the ability to obtain this unique property.”

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Can I remove the oldest security windows xp on y computer i have 33 updates dating back to 12/07 to 6/09?

I have 33 security updates in my control panel dating back to 12/07 to 06/12/09. can i remove the oldest ones with out losing anything that will hurt my computer