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

[Jason Kottke weist](https://kottke.org/26/05/0048878-what-now-familiar-domain-) auf diesen schönen [Bluesky-Thread](https://bsky.app/profile/annierau.bsky.social/post/3mkzrvrn44c2h) von [Annie Rauwerda](https://bsky.app/profile/annierau.bsky.social) 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](https://bsky.app/profile/annierau.bsky.social/post/3mkzrvrn44c2h), 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!