Dot Com is 25

I didn’t know this, but “.com” turned 25 recently.  The history behind it (my bold):

It was on this date in 1985 that a now-defunct artificial intelligence company out of MIT registered something called symbolics.com. It was an unheralded event, and at least a decade passed before the public really began to catch on.

Remember trying to “surf the Web” in the early 1990s? If so, you were well ahead of the curve. Once you got there, you might have wondered if all the waiting and listening to dial-up modem screech and whine was worth it. “Maybe this thing will go the way of CB radios,” you might have thought. Luckily, it didn’t.

Today, there are a quarter billion Web sites, 80 million of which are dot-coms.

Yeah, I guess you could say that was successful.  Isn’t that number staggering?  I remember when I first used the web in the mid ‘90s at a previous employer.  I thought it was cool, but I wasn’t sure how to use it.  3.5” floppies seemed like the better path…to me…at the time.