The history of domains

[system0]

http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/001529.php#001529

 

[Anthony Ng]

"... how the nerds were having a perfectly good time until the businesspeople and lawyers showed up and ruined everything ..." LOL! :laugh:

But that is inevitably, particularly when you know that business people and lawyers are actually running the governments around the world as well!

 

[Bob]

This was pretty cool.

Thank you for sharing the link.

-Bob

 

[dtobias]

My site on domain names (domains.dan.info) has an article along similar lines (how domains were invented by geeks and screwed up by marketing types and lawyers):

http://domains.dan.info/structure/intro.html

 

[domainscot]

yep great link from someone who know about lawyers