What .com really means
In 1851, there was a man named James King (Really innovative
guy) who became quite popular for his invention that saved the world a lot of
stress at that time. And of course like all inventions, at the time of
invention only the rich could afford it.
Then in 1908 another man named Alva J.
Fisher (smart guy) made an electric powered modified version of Kings Invention.
James King invented the first washing machine to use a drum (It
was hand powered)
1874 William Blackstone made the first home convenient
washing machine for his wife because he loved her
Alva J. Fisher invented the electric washing machine (he
should only get a third of a third of the credit)
Forget everything I’ve just told you
There are many unanswered questions in our universe and as
living beings we are tasked with finding answers to these questions, tasked
with finding solutions to these problems, to finding resolves to the conflicts
of existence, but do we? Do we search through the dark alleys, the skies, the
oceans, the caves and the deep web to find the answers we need?
These questions that have been so mind boggling that ancestors
passed the questions on to younger generations – what’s the true meaning of ‘Mom’, what does
‘per’ mean, what of ‘hashtag’, ‘bae’, ‘flick’, ‘about a week ago’… I could go
on for another year the list is endless but let’s get down to the subject here,
which is what does .com reallllllly mean?
Communication
Company
Commercial
Combat
Combust
I’ll tell you, it’s not combat and we wouldn’t be going to
facebook.combust either, now, would we?
Origin
.com means .commercial Sick right?
Anybody born today knows about .com and anybody born
yesterday knows about the dot com boom (This is completely irrelevant to the
topic). Of course I mean that figuratively. .com was originated as one of the
first top-level domains (TLDs) in January 1985. The first .com was claimed in March
1985 by a company called Symbolic, Inc. (Companies don’t get smarter than
that).
Back then the internet was mainly used by universities and
computer scientists for research and communication but as more people started
flocking into the computer world electronic communication became incredibly
difficult. They had to constantly manually route messages through gateways and
because humans like pushing the boundaries of everything (oh like my damn
neighbor with the noise) E-mails became a lot heavier (load wise) and they
would have to ask people sometimes to stop using their connections. The network
became chaotic, something had to be done to restore order to the internet and
someone had to step up to the task.
As the camera of history panned from his shoes up it slowly
revealed who the hero would be, it would be a man who worked in the University
of Southern California’s information sciences Institute, it would be Jon Postel
and his colleagues.
What was done?
Jon postel became the request for comment (RFC) editor in
1969. As RFC editor, postel with his colleagues (the unsung heroes) in October
1984 published RFC 920 “on the requirements of establishing a new domain in the
ARPA-internet and the DARPA research community” setting the stage for the birth
of .com and effectively shaping the internet to what we know today.
“I don’t
recall anybody ever thinking we were creating an organizational structure to
encompass hundreds of millions of entities covering the entire planet in
support of all human activities. And it certai
-Jack
Haverty, internet pioneer
They didn’t really know what .com meant during the development process. It was originally proposed as .cor and then later changed to .com. “I think .com originally was derived from company rather than commercial. The .com’s weren’t thought of as businesses in the sense of places consumers go to buy things” said Jack Haverty, who was an internet pioneer at MIT.
So all that said, it’s safe to say the internet was a mistake
because come on, it was, they weren’t making it for the purpose it serves
today, internet is basically life right now. Imagine if internet just shuts
down right now, every robot, every machine will go down with it (oh and those
tesla cars). It’ll rain planes.
Feel free to drop your thoughts or whatever you might want to
add in the comments section.
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