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The 25th anniversary of the 1st .com registration
Topic Started: Mar 15 2010, 02:30 PM (72 Views)
Axtremus
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HOLY CARP!!!
Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8567414.stm

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The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March - the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered.

In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with an internet address ending in dotcom.

That same year another five companies jumped on a very slow bandwagon.

...

With 668,000 dotcom sites registered every month, they have become part of the fabric of our lives.
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