• Frank
• Jan 24,2008
• In: Technology

Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names

Via Slashdot comes ITWorld.com’s history of five generic domain names: music.com, eat.com, car.com, milk.com and meat.com, making heavy use of the Wayback Machine.

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, marketable) nouns and verbs were snapped up by hopeful companies from the humble geeks who had purchased them (often ironically) in the early ’90s. The weird and wooly history of the Web can best be traced through some of its most generic domains.

I miss Web 1.0.