symbolics.com, Lisp Machine manufacturer, first ever .com domain. In 1985.
bbn.com, Lisp Machine developer, second .com domain in 1985.
Thinking Machines, Parallel AI Machine for Lisp, third .com domain in 1985
MCC, had hundreds of Lisp Machines, fourth .com domain in 1985
DEC, co-sponsor of CL, fifth .com domain in 1985
Xerox, Lisp Machine developer, seventh .com domain in 1986
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I'd say all the companies who participated in the CL development from 1981-1994 were commercial entities on the Internet. All of them offered a variety of network services in their operating systems: mail, chat, terminal, X11, file sharing, remote printing, remote booting, name server, ...
> I'm not advancing a moral argument. I'm advancing an historical one. It's an amoral fact that Common Lisp was standardized more than twenty years ago
It was standardized 1994 with the ANSI CL standard. Exactly 20 years ago.
> - before the commercial internet,
Commercial ISPs started around 1989.
> wide availability of systems suitable for distributed computing,
Distributed computing was available earlier.
> and even before it was clear that GUI's would win the war.
Lisp supported GUIs much earlier. The Common Lisp standards group had even a subgroup for this topic.
Anyway it's not clear what this all means, when CL was developed. Scheme, Objective C, C, C++, Smalltalk, were all developed before Common Lisp. What follows from that?
symbolics.com, Lisp Machine manufacturer, first ever .com domain. In 1985.
bbn.com, Lisp Machine developer, second .com domain in 1985.
Thinking Machines, Parallel AI Machine for Lisp, third .com domain in 1985
MCC, had hundreds of Lisp Machines, fourth .com domain in 1985
DEC, co-sponsor of CL, fifth .com domain in 1985
Xerox, Lisp Machine developer, seventh .com domain in 1986
...
I'd say all the companies who participated in the CL development from 1981-1994 were commercial entities on the Internet. All of them offered a variety of network services in their operating systems: mail, chat, terminal, X11, file sharing, remote printing, remote booting, name server, ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_re...
All were having networked machines and networked operating systems.