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**DotComGod** · 01-24-2008, 01:00 AM

Five ho-hum domain names and their curious stories
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It's easy to forget the first Internet gold rush of the mid-to-late '90s, when dot-com domain names based on ordinary (and, investors hoped, ...

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**Devil Dog** · 01-24-2008, 01:29 AM

Ho-Hum? Speak for yourself Mr. Author!

**tinner666** · 01-24-2008, 10:59 AM

Interesting. I was/am one of the naive.

**barefoot** · 01-24-2008, 12:01 PM

Seems the author wasn't doing much Web-surfing back in 1996. Under the section for Eat.com, he writes: "Mama's Dining Room" is the page's name, and the text -- charmingly unformatted on a white background on a hideous gray background, apparently unedited by anyone professional..."

Ummm... in 1996 there were very few people calling themselves "professional" web developers because it was still so new. I was coding my HTML in Notepad back then, and the "hideous gray background" were commonplace on web pages because that was the default body background color in early browsers like Mosaic, and few coders bothered to change the default color in their HTML.

And you'd always include a "Hot Links" page on your site which was nothing but a verrry looooong page of nothing but text links. Graphics were few and far between, and the default text font was typically Times New Roman.

The most popular title on Web sites? "Welcome to My Home Page".

Ahhh... the good old days... Where's my time machine? I'm going back to 1996 to try to purchase Music.com from MUSIC Semiconductor for $1,000.

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barefoot Lose your shoes! Name: Daniel Last Online: Today 09:25 AM iTrader: (24) Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 409 DNF$: 8,573 Location: Boston Country:	Seems the author wasn't doing much Web-surfing back in 1996. Under the section for Eat.com, he writes: "Mama's Dining Room" is the page's name, and the text -- charmingly unformatted on a white background on a hideous gray background, apparently unedited by anyone professional..." Ummm... in 1996 there were very few people calling themselves "professional" web developers because it was still so new. I was coding my HTML in Notepad back then, and the "hideous gray background" were commonplace on web pages because that was the default body background color in early browsers like Mosaic, and few coders bothered to change the default color in their HTML. And you'd always include a "Hot Links" page on your site which was nothing but a verrry looooong page of nothing but text links. Graphics were few and far between, and the default text font was typically Times New Roman. The most popular title on Web sites? "Welcome to My Home Page". Ahhh... the good old days... Where's my time machine? I'm going back to 1996 to try to purchase Music.com from MUSIC Semiconductor for $1,000.

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