Proving that things were way cooler back in the day, is the world's first computer mouse. Made by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, it "consisted of two gear-wheels positioned perpendicular to each other -- allowing movement on one axis." Just look at this thing. Ergonomic shape, great button placement -- and it's made of wood. If that ain't style, then I don't know what is. Sure the front has rotted out, but who cares. My mouse looks like that, and it's brand new. That's just what happens when porn doesn't download fast enough and you start slamming the mouse on the desk.



One more of the underside after the jump.

The worlds first laptop looked a little different than the ones we’re used to today.

The Osbourne 1, introduced to the world April 1981 boasted a 5 inch monitor, 64k of RAM, dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K floppy drives, weighed in at 24.5 pounds and had a sticker price of only $1795.00. A steal, considering it came bundled with over $1500 worth of cutting edge software (circa 1981).

Available options were a 300 baud modem and an optional double density disk drives (for which an extra circuit board had to be installed) .



The Osbourne 1 was quite a hit and a brisk seller, reaching monthly sales of over $1,000,000 in September of that year.



Ok, laptop is probably not the word to use when describing this thing

 What was the world's first .com?

Just what would the site with the world's longest domain name be without mentioning what the world's first dot com was

Now were sure many of you think you know and some really do know, but those that think it was think.com better think again, think.com was the third...we think.

The DNS was created in 1984 and in 1985 top level domains were defined. The first top level domains were COM, ORG, EDU, GOV, MIL and ccTLD.

In April 1985 cmu.edu, purdue.edu, rice.edu and ucla.edu were the first registered domain names.

The first .gov was css.gov and was registered in June 1985.

The first .org was mitre.org and was registered in July 1985.

Now for the first .com which was registered on March 15 1985 and it was symbolics.com which still happens to be up and running, although not much to look at.

Now for the first 100 registered domains:

SYMBOLICS.COM

BBN.COM

THINK.COM

MCC.COM

DEC.COM

NORTHROP.COM

XEROX.COM

SRI.COM

HP.COM

BELLCORE.COM

IBM.COM

SUN.COM

INTEL.COM

TI.COM

ATT.COM

GMR.COM

TEK.COM

FMC.COM

UB.COM

BELL-ATL.COM

GE.COM

GREBYN.COM

ISC.COM

NSC.COM

STARGATE.COM

BOEING.COM

ITCORP.COM

SIEMENS.COM

PYRAMID.COM

ALPHACDC.COM

BDM.COM

FLUKE.COM

INMET.COM

KESMAI.COM

MENTOR.COM

NEC.COM

RAY.COM

ROSEMOUNT.COM

VORTEX.COM

ALCOA.COM

GTE.COM

ADOBE.COM

AMD.COM

DAS.COM

DATA-IO.COM

OCTOPUS.COM

PORTAL.COM

TELTONE.COM

3COM.COM

AMDAHL.COM

CCUR.COM

CI.COM

CONVERGENT.COM

DG.COM

PEREGRINE.COM

QUAD.COM

SQ.COM

TANDY.COM

TTI.COM

UNISYS.COM

CGI.COM

CTS.COM

SPDCC.COM

APPLE.COM

NMA.COM

PRIME.COM

PHILIPS.COM

DATACUBE.COM

KAI.COM

TIC.COM

VINE.COM

NCR.COM

CISCO.COM

RDL.COM

SLB.COM

PARCPLACE.COM

UTC.COM

IDE.COM

TRW.COM

UNIPRESS.COM

DUPONT.COM

LOCKHEED.COM

ROSETTA.COM

TOAD.COM

QUICK.COM

ALLIED.COM

DSC.COM

SCO.COM

GENE.COM

KCCS.COM

SPECTRA.COM

WLK.COM

MENTAT.COM

WYSE.COM

CFG.COM

MARBLE.COM

CAYMAN.COM

ENTITY.COM

KSR.COM

NYNEXST.COM