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Written by Pat's Papers | Monday, 15 March 2010 10:00 AM
Today marks the anniversary of the day the first domain name was registered, 25 years ago. The San Francisco Chronicle says it’s hard to even remember “life B.C.” That’s “before dot com” for the unfamiliar. Back in 1985, only six companies had registered .com addresses. The paper says the designation almost lost out to .cor - short for corporate - in the early days of the Internet.
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