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.
How does he get the carcass back to his tribe?
That hunter earned his food and respected the animal he killed.
Gabriel, It really must be hard work bringing back such a large animal. I don't know how they would do it.
As far as it being more cruel, I agree that the animal experienced more fear because of the duration of the chase, but it is more heartless to shoot a creature for pleasure.
Awesome comment, you must teach me more of this dating philosophy.
I loathe hunting, but if you have to do it to feed youself etc be practical and grant the animal a swift death. Dying of exhaustion sounds awful and it's also a waste of time and energy resources for the hunter.
You would come out way ahead even if that animal only has about 800 calories per pound.
She had the benefit of cookies.
Do you guys get this stuff from watching "Pocahontas" or what? Before the La-Z-Boy was invented, nobody spouted this philosophical claptrap about what you ate and how you got it.
Chow down!
"You don't stop running because you get old and die, you get old and die because you stop running."