March 15th: 27th Anniversary of Domain Day

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Start date Mar 15, 2012
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The first internet domain, symbolics.com, was registered on March 15, marking its 27th anniversary. Tim Berners-Lee is acknowledged for inventing the World Wide Web and choosing to make it freely available, which helped prevent competition and potential addressing conflicts. This decision has had a lasting impact on the development and accessibility of the internet.

Mar 15, 2012

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Did you know first internet domain was registered exactly 27 years ago, on March 15^th?

http://symbolics.com/

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Thank you Tim Berners-Lee for inventing the World Wide Web and giving it away for free to avoid competition which would create addressing conflicts. What a man!

http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/about/web-en.html

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