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

Down to the real stuff

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).

Why did it come about?

Jon Postel

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.

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