Exactly thirty years ago, on March 15, 1985, the first .com was registered domain name (symbolics.com) by the Symbolics technology company, effectively signaling the birth of the commercial Internet. But domain names began to find application during the 1990 decade.
1985. Back to the Future was released in US theaters and ended up being the highest grossing film of the year. Studio Ghibli, the world famous Japanese animation studio, was founded. The Amiga personal computers were released. Super Mario Bros. was released. THE Steve Jobs άφησε την Apple. Το Διαστημικό Λεωφορείο Atlantis έκανε την παρθενική του flight. The first Nintendo consoles were released in the US.
Despite all these great cultural, technological, and scientific developments, the Internet, as we know it today, started to build much more slowly, with only six .com domain names registered in 1985. The next decade brought the real revolution after the millionth domain name .com was registered with 1997.
Do you remember those years? When Netscape Navigator was the most popular program browsing on the Internet? The following GIFs were created by The Open University with base the archived pages from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
HP.com - 1997
Boeing.com - 1996
Intel.com - 1995
Apple.com - 1998
The Open University - 1997
Xerox.com - 1996
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