1985: Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company, registers symbolics.com, the internet’s first domain name. The market for these unique addresses would not heat up for years, but this click heard ’round the world would eventually provide just about anyone a place in cyberspace to call their own.
Owning your own domain is nothing to brag about anymore, [...]
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March 15, 1985: Dot-Com Revolution Starts With a Whimper
March 15th, 2010 |
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Too close for comfort
January 15th, 2010 |
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The Republican candidate for senator is doing surprisingly well in Massachusetts
MASSACHUSETTS is the Democratic Alabama. Republicans deride the liberal, coastal state as “Taxachusetts” and worse. It has produced two failed Democratic presidential candidates, John Kerry and Michael Dukakis, successfully portrayed as coastal cissies. It is also home to America’s most enduring Democratic dynasty: the Kennedys. Its combination of unions, intellectuals and blacks makes it one of the safest Democratic states in the country. The state as a whole does not have a single Republican member in the House or Senate.
Democrats are alarmed, then, that just before an election on Tuesday January 19th for Edward Kennedy’s old seat, polls are surprisingly close. The Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney-general, should be a shoo-in. But Scott Brown, her opponent, even had a slender lead in one opinion poll, though he was 17 points behind in another. A more recent snapshot of voters’ intentions, taken between Monday and Wednesday, now has Ms Coakley four points behind. But Mr Brown has momentum, and hauled in the better part of a $1m in an online “money bomb” fund-raiser on Monday. Barack Obama has expressed his support, but has not visited the state. This could be because his own poll ratings have fallen and are now roughly even between approval and disapproval. Calling in the president could make Ms Coakley appear desperate. …