Not ATMB…why? Teach me about this mysterious last line here.
Re-registration, obviously. But such a long time since its birthday in 1995 till its first update, and now why such a quickie?
Where/what was straightdope.com before its domain registration?
[Hijack by Zen koan]
What was your face before you were born?
[/Hijack by Zen koan]
What happens is that the domain expires, unless it’s renewed. I don’t really understand your other questions.
What makes you think there was a long time between its “birthday” and its first update? Where do you see its first update?
Looks like it’s on a 3-year renewal cycle. Someone last paid the $30 to renew it for 3 years in 2013, and someone will pay the $30 to renew it for 3 more years before December 22 2016.
I think the Straight Dope, and an accompanying message board, was on AOL before it was on the WWW. I’m not old enough to remember that. But several of the posters here are.
It never said “First update”, and it only said “Last Update”.
It does only show the date of the LAST update.
It doesn’t even show a count of HOW MANY updates. Not that it means anything, except help someone who was trying to match a change recognize if it already happened or not.
Moved to ATMB.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
That is the date of the invasion.
Every post on the straightdope is being transmitted directly back to them so they can learn about humans.
Haven’t you ever wondered about the delay between searches? Their communication technology is not instant over such a vast distance.
Boy, are they going to be in for a surprise…especially the ones disguised as sexy sheep.
There was also a discussion area on Usenet - alt.fan.cecil-adams if I remember correctly.
And if they don’t, the board will lose its Charter Member status.
Yes, that’s where most of the usenet discussions took place. When the AOL area was going away, a more “official” usenet group, misc.facts.straight-dope, was created.
However, people used to AOL never really warmed up to moving to a usenet group, and people already using the existing alt.fan.cecil-adams group didn’t see much reason to move if nobody else was coming in, so it never really got much use.
2013 wasn’t the first update, it was the most recent one. All websites do that, we’re not special that way. If you check back in 2016 it’ll say it expires 12/22/2019 and the last update was 12/22/2016. Assuming they renew it for another 3 years of course.
Just an observation - according to that same site, microsoft.com expires on 03-May-2021. I guess everyone will have switched to Linux by then! 
Well no, it just means that Bill Gates could afford to splash out on the 10-year package, while the lowly Dope can only scrape together the cash for three.
It melts in your hand.
On a related topic, what caused the apparent recent very brief crash and recovery in Alexa popularity revealed in the graph on the OP’s link? Dropped from around the 4000s into free fall, then almost instantly recovered. Maybe I missed it, but I haven’t noticed any access issues.
I’m guessing that would be the malware warnings/problems.
I thought that’s when Colibri and Ed Zotti were projected to add a new upgrade, and the board would inadvertently become sentient–the birth of SkyCECIL.
Tripler
. . . and the initial batch machines would all look like they were drawn by Slug Signorino.
Imagine. An entire army of üuber-machines wearing mortar boards and 1948-era funnel bras. :o
I may have seen a bar like that in Tokyo.