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Yeah, 1992 is way too early for that. Even then, it wasn't fully mainstream until advertisers felt able to drop the http://www from the url. When companies could just put coke.com at the end of their TV ads or on the can, it was as mainstream as anything.


As I said above it was a surprise to me at the time, but nevertheless true. The domain was registered in April 1992.




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