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Thursday, September 9, 2010
 

 

I was amazed to realise that it has been 25 years since the first dotcom address was registered.
To help give you further details of how dotcom has grown to what it is today, please read on.

 

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.

It took until 1997, well into the internet boom, before the one millionth dotcom was registered.

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