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Home 06 Mar 2015 Sign of the times: Apple in the Dow, at&t out Bloomberg (and everyone else) are reporting that Apple has finally been added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. No surprise about that, it was inevitable once their stock split last year, but I was somewhat surprised to see that they kicked out at&t to make room for it. See more ...   posted at: 12:30 :: permanent link to this entry :: 0 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/djaapl.html 05 Mar 2015 The DNS still isn't a directory ICANN Back in the mid 1990s, before ICANN was invented, a lot of people assumed that the way you would find stuff on the Internet would be through the Domain Name System. It wasn't a ridiculous idea at the time. The most popular way to look for stuff was through manually managed directories like Yahoo's, but they couldn't keep up with the rapidly growing World Wide Web. Search engines had been around since 1994, but they were either underpowered and missed a lot of stuff, or else produced a blizzard of marginally relevant results. (Brin and Page wouldn't publish their billion dollar PageRank idea until 1998.) Moreover, web browsers had started to do domain guessing, so if you entered, say, pickles in your browser's address bar, it would take you to http://pickles.com. See more ...   posted at: 12:55 :: permanent link to this entry :: 6 comments Stable link is https://jl.ly/ICANN/notdir.html

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