Fourth-oldest dot-com domain now relegated to serving up scareware at $400 a victim

Do not click on mcc … oh, wait, let’s not even create a link here, lest someone be tempted. Do not go there.

Founded in 1982, the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (safe Wikipedia link) was this country’s first computer research and development consortium. It was also the fourth organization of any kind to register a dot-com domain name, having done so nearly 30 years ago on July 11, 1985. MCC researched and developed until the year 2000.

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