re: Happy birthday dotcom as internet domain name turns 25

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob () drzyzgula org>
> Date: March 15, 2010 9:52:11 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: Happy birthday dotcom as internet domain name turns 25

> Dave,
>
> Thanks, although sometimes I do wonder if journalists
> generally have some contractual or ethical obligation
> to insert a minimum of one error or misrepresentation
> into everything they write:
>
> "Scholars generally agree that a turning point was the
>  introduction of the Mosaic web browser by Netscape that
>  brought mainstream consumers on to the web."
>
> Mosaic was of course a product of NCSA, along with the NCSA
> HTTPd web server that eventually became Apache. While the
> authors of NCSA Mosaic worked on Netscape, the latter
> product was "built from scratch" [1].  Netscape as a
> company *was* originally called "Mosaic Communications
> Corporation", but the University of Illinois objected [2],
> and the company was eventually renamed Netscape
> Communications.
>
> --Bob Drzyzgula
>
> [1] http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1994q4/0187.html
> [2] http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/andreesen.html
>
>
>
> On 15/03/10 08:28 -0400, Dave Farber wrote:
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>
> > > Date: March 15, 2010 3:16:14 AM EDT
> > > To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> > > Subject: Happy birthday dotcom as internet domain name turns 25
> > > Reply-To: Ole Jacobsen <ole () cisco com>
> >
> > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8567414.stm
> > >
> > > "In 1985, a total of six dotcom domain names were registered."
> > >
> > > Ole
> > >
> > >
> > > Ole J. Jacobsen
> > > Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
> > > Cisco Systems
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> > > E-mail: ole () cisco com  URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj
> >
> >
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