It was 25 years ago on 15^th March that the first domain name, symbolics.com, was registered. Before we started assigning names to hosts we needed to refer to web sites by a complex string of numbers and dots. This, along with DNS and text-based or GUI web browsers, made it way simpler for users to find their way around the webz. Since then. about 80 million domain names have been registered. I would have had a hand in registering a couple thousand of them while working at iiNet as part of my job. Wow, 25 years. The Internet was a small place back then. It’s hard to believe there was a time when the Whole Internet Catalog was even possible.