There is an article on CNN.com that is fascinating. Michael Pearson reports on 30 years of .com.
The first .com was registered by Symbolics, a former computer manufacturer on March 15, 1985.
Now Symbolics is a website with unusual facts about businesses and internet history. XF.com Investments purchased the domain in August, 2009.
Pearson goes on to mention Bryant Gumbel's remark about the internet on the Today show in 1994.
"What is the internet anyway?"
Oh my, how far we have come since then. There are now around 275,000,000 registered domains.
Pearson conveys information about the history of .com's in a very factual and lively manner in his post at CNN (30 years of .com). He even notes the new company domain names being used - .coach, .green and .money.
He ends the post with a quote from Stephanie Ricker Schulte, a University of Arkansas communications professor and author of the 2013 book "Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture." "I think .com will always be present at least in a residual way," she said. "History is important, even in places as seemingly ephemeral as the Internet."
Let's face it the internet has expanded our economy and increased the amount of knowledge we can acquire. Don't have a computer, nowadays you can go to a library for access. The Internet is not just for businesses, it is useful in so many ways.
Resources:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/13/living/feat-30-years-dot-com/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
http://symbolics.com/about-symbolics/
http://nyupress.org/books/9780814708675/
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