<story><title>Old Internet Files</title><url>https://rscott.org/OldInternetFiles/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Diederich</author><text>Hah, there&amp;#x27;s my domain, from 1996:&lt;p&gt;REALMS.ORG&lt;p&gt;Admin: Diederich, Dana         Dana.Diederich@GOLDINC.COM        (601)374-6510
...&lt;p&gt;I actually started the process of acquiring realms.org in 1994.  At the time, you sent an e-mail to &amp;#x27;a guy&amp;#x27; in DC.  It took some time, but I finally got it registered in 1995.  It was, of course, a free service.</text></comment>
<story><title>Old Internet Files</title><url>https://rscott.org/OldInternetFiles/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smhenderson</author><text>Seeing &amp;quot;domain-contacts.txt&amp;quot; reminded how much simpler the internet used to be. Imagine not being afraid of giving out your contact info to the whole internet!&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure if the people who participated at the time would ever have imagined the need for whois anonymizers and weird tricks to keep your email address from being picked up by robots and spiders.</text></comment>