Twenty-five years ago today, Symbolics Computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts, registered Symbolics.com as a URL. It was the first such claim in computing history:
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That same year another five companies jumped on a very slow bandwagon.
It took until 1997, well into the internet boom, before the one millionth dotcom was registered.[...]
It is unlikely that the early dotcoms were thought of as businesses as the early internet was not seen as a place for commerce but rather as a platform for governmental and educational bodies to trade ideas.
Scholars generally agree that a turning point was the introduction of the Mosaic web browser by Netscape that brought mainstream consumers on to the web.
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symbolics.com is a DOMAIN name which may point to one or infinite hosts within that domain. It's not a URL
Sure, but where would we be today without all the porn, advertising and cats that infest teh internets?
(It also drives me batty when someone writes "$10 dollars.")
1997 was the year that I settled on using Cola as an internet handle, and also my real nickname.