People like DW remember the good ol' days of domaining.
You had to hand crank the ol Kapro's to boot them up. Then you would connect via a 2.56b/m telegraph modem.
After registering the name, it would be delivered to you via Pony Express in about 4 weeks in a leather pouch.
Ahh yes, the old silver backs had it so good back in the day.
ROFLMAO not quite that bad
I think I had a 56k modem by then! Maybe not...all the technology changes have become a blur....
But I can remember the 6 am goldrush was really 3 am here on the west coast. I used to get up at 2:20 AM every morning and log into the registrar. I would have as many screens as my computer would support open and start cutting and pasting and submitting names manually for 45 minutes. I built a lot of my early portfolio like that for over a year 2000-2001. I would be awake (psyched) till about 5 and then have to get up at 8 to go to work.
And the lists of dropping names would hit 500-700,000 names a week. I got wrist arm and elbow problems from all the keyboard work hitting the down button and cutting and pasting. It would take most of the day just to get through the daily list.
It was a real relief when I started offering services to other domainers and got a couple of registrars on board and could start using scripts instead.
I can remember the night I thought I bagged shopping.com manually in a drop. I was flying!!! Then I realized it was actually shopplng.com small L not an i. What a letdown. :-(
