25 years since the first domain name, Symbolics.com
Written by ShopOne on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 in Linked News.
1985 – Symbolics.com is registered, with Bbn.com and Think.com making up the first three dotcoms.
1986 – Xerox snapped up theirs in January, following by IBM in March and Boeing in September. At this stage, the concept of using the internet for commercial purposes was still unheard of.
1987 – Apple, just as it was launching its groundbreaking SE computer, registered Apple.com in February – again, without much of a clue of its future potential. The 100th dotcom to be registered, Nynexst.com, is added to the list on 30 November.
1988 – Robert Morris, a student at Cornell University writes the first notable computer “worm”, supposedly to gauge the size of the internet at that time (some 60,000 computers, as it turned out). He’s convicted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; today he’s an associate professor at MIT.
1989 – The World becomes the first company to offer dial-up internet access to the American public. In March, Compuserve – an alternative dialup service – makes its first links to the internet, allowing the receipt and transmission of email messages. Still no web, though
1990 – The first search engine, Archie, is written by Alan Emtage, a computer science student at the university of Montreal, enabling users to locate material on public computers. On Christmas Day Tim Berners-Lee compiles the first webpage at the unmemorable URL nxoc01.cern.ch.
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