What now-familiar domain names looked like before they were bought by big-time companies

Jason Kottke weist auf diesen schönen Bluesky-Thread von Annie Rauwerda hin, in dem sie berichtet, was vorher auf den Domains von jetzt bekannten Firmen passierte:

What now-familiar domain names looked like before they were bought by big-time companies, e.g. openai.com was „the personal homepage of a guy named glenn“, doordash.com was a porn site, threads.com sold spools of thread.

Ihr Resümee ist dann auch sehr treffend:

before the internet was a corporate hellscape it was built by ordinary people!