[clug-talk] Couldn't be more on topic :-)

[Mark Carlson]

On 8/17/06, Jon <me at jonwatson.ca> wrote:
> Nick Wiltshire wrote:
>
> > Now that's foresight!
>
> I'm thinking disgruntled MS employee from 1995 :)

Could be, but it wasn't always FF.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ie7.com

looks like a .com frenzy buy:

>From Dec 04, 2001 til Jan 03, 2004
  "This domain is hosted by Digital Dataflow Ltd."

Then Jan 03, 2004: "Afternic parked ..."
http://web.archive.org/web/20040103032353/http://www.ie7.com/

.. then back to DD
http://web.archive.org/web/20040525095014/http://ie7.com/

even as late as Feb 11, 2005 it was parked by sedo-parking
http://web.archive.org/web/20050211065341/http://ie7.com/

Can only speculate that this is the date it finally changed hands:
"Record last updated on 04-Mar-2006."

Not that it matters much, I just like pimping archive.org <3

-Mark