Today in 1985, the first internet domain name, symbolics.com, was registered.
In “The Day Dot-Coms Were Invented” (Harvard Business Review, March 15, 2010), Bob Metcalfe connected this event with the thirty-year anniversary of the IEEE 802 standards committee starting its work on Local Area Networking and Metropolitan Area Networking standards.
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