Prepare to feel old: .com is 30

Exactly 30 years ago, on Sunday, March 15, 1985, a computer company in Massachusetts registered the world’s first dot-com domain: Symbolics.com. And with that, the dot-com era officially began.

By the end of 1985, Symbolics.com was still one of just a small number of registered domains. Today, of course, there are hundreds of millions of domains floating around the Internet.

The Dot-Com as You Know It Is 30. This Is How It’s Changed the World – Daniel Howley, Yahoo (13 March 2015)

Read the full piece for more about that first-ever .com and how far we’ve come in three decades.

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