[HN Gopher] Fuck.com (1997)
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Fuck.com (1997)
Author : ca98am79
Score : 84 points
Date : 2021-11-04 19:34 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.links.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.links.net)
| john-doe wrote:
| On a related note, FUFME is still online:
| http://www.easylife.org/fufme/
| spaceisballer wrote:
| I thought when I invented the Universal Serial Dick (USD) I was
| unique.
| romanhn wrote:
| The Y2K compliance statement was a great touch.
| azalemeth wrote:
| I get the distinct feeling that website might be very useful
| prior art in any forthcoming teledildonics patent cases. Also,
| the "box cover" art is _amazing_. From their FAQ:
|
| > Can I use FuckU-FuckMe for anal or oral sex? > >Certainly!
| But be sure to set the preferences to oral/anal for best
| results. Ensure first that these acts are legal in your state.
| We cannot be held responsible for the legal consequences of
| extracoital use.
|
| Is that really true -- are there places in america where either
| sex toys or anal/oral sex either are not legal, or were not
| legal in ~1997?
| nsp wrote:
| Sodomy - which I believe legally was essentially 'non vaginal
| sex' was illegal in Texas until 2003.
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| And toys were contraband in Texas until 2008. You'd have to
| register as a sex offender if caught selling them.
| thesuitonym wrote:
| Fun fact: There are countries in the world that are _not_ the
| US!
| DeathArrow wrote:
| Like Iowa?
| rzzzt wrote:
| I haven't seen compelling evidence yet.
| kelnos wrote:
| We're talking about a product that was marketed to a US
| audience, and their legal disclaimer that specifically
| referenced US states.
| romanhn wrote:
| Pretty sure this is a parody on CU-SeeMe, not an actual
| product.
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| Alabama, still illegal it seems: https://www.reddit.com/r/tod
| ayilearned/comments/3aipiz/til_a...
| Svperstar wrote:
| When I got online in 1996-1997 there was some website that played
| with font sizing and graphics to make the biggest Fuck on the
| internet. Like it would take a couple minutes to scroll on an old
| 640x480 monitor. Good times lol.
| Jugurtha wrote:
| The site reads from another era. There are some things like
| "Fravia+" that sometimes feel from an era that never existed. One
| person from Greece contacted me on Facebook, of all places,
| because I had something on Fravia+. I grew fond of that person
| and almost met them in Athens when I went to Greece (to meet
| another person I knew on the internet after a week of meetings in
| Paris where I said: "screw it, let's just do it"), because we
| shared one bit of an almost lost memory of the internet. It truly
| is special.
| kingcharles wrote:
| I was trying to register this too in 1994. I guess it was a race
| between several of us to register stupid domains. I was also
| bending their ears to get them to let me register the remaining
| single-character dotcoms. It is heartwarming to see the Internic
| form on that page - you used to type up the text file and email
| it to them and wait. You could have pretty much any domain you
| wanted in 1994. Except fuck.com. Also, they were FREE. I lost all
| mine once they introduced the $200/year registration fee, after,
| I believe, Unilever sent them 19,000 registration requests for
| each of their trademarks.
|
| Despite domains being free, most of the web sites I would visit
| were simply hosted on IPs. I had a big notebook next to my PC
| with all the IPs written down. That was my DNS in 1994.
| RobRivera wrote:
| I want to return
| lokimedes wrote:
| Amazing how quickly it transitioned to a more mainstream web.
| We had internet at home in 1995-96 and I registered my first
| domain in 1997 - by that time domains and DNS worked pretty
| much like today.
| [deleted]
| dleslie wrote:
| > I had a big notebook next to my PC with all the IPs written
| down.
|
| Likewise! It was like having a secret code, or treasure map,
| and this data was much coveted among local young hackers.
| kingcharles wrote:
| There weren't many web sites, so I'll be honest, it was
| mostly IPs for ftp sites with upload directories that had
| accidentally been left open and were now filled with warez.
| gogopuppygogo wrote:
| I'm a bit too young to remember the advent of the Internet
| but old enough to remember when the FXP scene burst onto
| BBS's with enough warez to fill every hard drive I could
| get my hands on.
| redasadki wrote:
| hard drive? you mean diskettes, ZIP drives, and SYQUEST
| cartridges
| jasonfarnon wrote:
| the tape drives... 250+ MB years before iomega came along
| jasonfarnon wrote:
| why write them out longhand, you were just using ftp at a
| shell? I remember gui clients in that era that would store
| them. cuteftp on windows at some point mid 90s, and before
| that something else, maybe ws_ftp.
| greyface- wrote:
| http://www.links.net/webpub/domains.html says:
|
| > It used to be free, now you have to pay $50 a year for the
| priviledge ofyour own address. Some people aren't standing for
| it, Refuse to Pay!.
|
| The "Refuse to Pay!" link 404s, but is present in the Wayback
| Machine, and is an amusing read:
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/19970606222403/www.alaska.net/~n...
| thesuitonym wrote:
| Imagine if registration had stayed free, there'd be no domain
| squatters, and that cool idea you had that only works if the
| domain is available would be possible!
| jliptzin wrote:
| If registration were free one guy would write a script to
| register every possible domain and no one would be able to
| get one without buying it off of him.
| stychos wrote:
| Easy to handle, just use the rules of that time -- single
| domain for single IP. Not applicable to v6 and dyndnses,
| but something like this can solve it.
| 542458 wrote:
| That seems like it would only further incentivize a
| problem we have today - wastefully holding a bunch of
| IPV4 addresses that you have no need for.
| [deleted]
| pwned1 wrote:
| I see that diarrhea.com is still owned by P&G.
| petre wrote:
| They probably sell antidiarrheals and just had to own it.
| m-i-l wrote:
| The UK equivalent was registered in 1996 for the "well known and
| respected Fulchester Underwater Canoeing Klubb", allegedly to get
| around UK name registration rules.
| fiftyacorn wrote:
| Which was owned by Viz
| msdrigg wrote:
| Well it resolves to something now. I guess they relaxed their
| policy.
| consumer451 wrote:
| While this other policy got worse...?
|
| > If christian.org had been secured by out and out blasphemers,
| why couldn't I get a simple swear word?
|
| http://www.christian.org/
|
| > This domain has been suspended due to non-completion of an
| ICANN-mandated contact verification.
| vageli wrote:
| This is solvable by just clicking on the link they send to
| the contact of record.
| jliptzin wrote:
| Maybe they don't have God's address?
| consumer451 wrote:
| Curiouser and curiouser!
| dhosek wrote:
| I lost quixote.com (which I'd had since domain registrations were
| free) to a missed renewal while I was in grad school. To add
| insult to injury, the ultimate owner of the domain name had a
| parking lot filled with trucks with quixote.com painted on the
| side that I had to drive past every day on my way to the
| university.
| solarkraft wrote:
| At least they did something with it. One of my domain names has
| been on sale for 10.000$ by a squatter for a few years after a
| billing issue.
| justinator wrote:
| Still weird to me to see bud.com actually be something
| commercial, rather than a bunch of random links ala Memepool.
| DarkmSparks wrote:
| lol, when you discover c__t.com links to a wikipedia page.
| xdennis wrote:
| To save people a click, http://cunt.com redirects to
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn .
| mhh__ wrote:
| His legacy lives on I guess
| kingcharles wrote:
| I don't think you need to censor yourself here...
| [deleted]
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| > fuck is a powerful word, we intend to use it as a web domain
| for a powerful press
|
| Fuck.com now goes to some probably-scam sexy singles chat site.
| Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself a villain etc etc.
| dang wrote:
| One past bit:
|
| _Fuck.com_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14000570 -
| March 2017 (2 comments)
| tcmb wrote:
| His email address is justin@cyberorgasmic, without a TLD. Could
| someone please explain how this worked back then?
| rshannon3 wrote:
| iirc the hosts file was the primary DNS at the time, and would
| sync every 24 hours from a master hosts file online. Thus not
| needing TLDs to resolve hostnames.
| kingcharles wrote:
| While this would work, Internic would need to share the same
| HOSTS file. I don't remember a global shared HOSTS like that.
|
| When Windows 95 came out I created an online shared
| cdplayer.ini where everyone added their own track info and we
| intended to create a file that had info for every CD in the
| world (this was before CDDB was invented). Sadly the project
| self-destructed because W95 had a hard 64Kb limit on .ini
| files.
| LeoPanthera wrote:
| This is exactly how CDDB got started, except it was a
| database file for xmcd.
| thesuitonym wrote:
| If you think that's crazy, check out how email worked on
| ARPANet:
| https://wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_email#ARPANET_mail
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