I was checking the old referral log here at Genx40 HQ tonight before hitting the hay when I saw that there was someone out there at "mv.com" having a read.
A small side track for context. Referral logs - or refer logs (hence "refer madness" when you check too often) - are a place that note when someone has come from somewhere else, usually through a link on a web page or an email. If you have a site in your favorites or enter the URL directly into the browsers you are not caught by the referral log. Wider web stats are also possible, as you can see with reinvented.net's fullsome display.
So...back to the entry...I thought...26 x 26 or only 676 two letter .com domains possible between aa.com and zz.com forever for the world. Who could this be that sent a reader my way. Have a look at the mv.com history page. Interesting tale of a small company early in the technology - a pre-web ISP - that is still going.
Comments
abuIskander - June 14, 2003 8:59 pm
GenX <i>World</i> HQ, shurely - Ed.
Alan - June 15, 2003 2:08 pm
No, the hydrofoil has been in repairs so I haven't been able to get to World HQ on the otherwise uninhablited Main Duck Island of Kingston lately...I just hope the koalas don't run out of eucalyptus, pluck buggers...
Peter Rukavina - June 18, 2003 12:03 am
My friend Steve Muskie, now at Outtakes.com, had an @mv.com email address for many, many years. Indeed they set him up with a domain name -- emedia.mv.com, for his company EMediate Access -- before anyone knew such things were possible.
Ironic New Hampshire ISP sidenote: one of the state's other ISP's, MonadNet (the "Monad" is from Mount Monadnock, the "most climbed mountain the America" -- you can see it from the Yankee parking lot), was a company I dealt with through several clients a couple of years back. One day, when I wasn't looking, they were purchased by Prexar. Who is the majority shareholder of Prexar? Aliant. I can't escape them.
Alan - June 18, 2003 12:29 am
There is a bar in Portland, Maine on the top of a hotel where on a clear summer evening you can drink cocktails and see the White Mountains to the northwest, Katahdin to the northeast and to the south the working harbour and Casco Bay beyond. I will be there in Portland August long weekend on the pretense of running in a 10 k race which I have no hope of finishing.