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On January 22, 1996, the New York Times was an article hidden on the D7 page, publishing a website public.
“The New York Times will launch today on the World Wide Web every day, and will allow readers around the world to access most of the daily newspapers immediately.” Peter H. Lewis. “Electronic newspaper (address: http: //www.nytimes.com) is part of a strategy to expand the Times.”
Lewis used to own the URL.
In 1985, the Times editor AM Rosenthal and Arthur Gerb gathered taskforce, including Lewis, to work on a project called the New York Times in 2000. Lewis shared the details of the project and his thoughts this week. Time works by email, and most of this description can be obtained from email.
Lewis, the editor of the science section, and a computer columnist, remembered that around 2000, the Times would be read on a cyber space computer screen.
Lewis wrote about Gerbu that “I remember that Artie was fired and fired me.”
A few years later, according to Lewis, the editor Bill Stockton, an editor of science and technology, ordered Lewis to be in charge of the “Internet.”
At one point, Lewis wrote in email, “I asked for permission to register a web domain on the Times, but it was no.” “We thought it was myopic eye.”
Another reporter, John Markov, joined the Times in 1988 to cover computer networking, but started his duties and registered with NYT.com. (He used it for e -mail. He did not set a web page on the domain, so when people tried to access it, an error warning was displayed.) And Lewis. He scooped NYTIMES.com in the end of 1993 or early 1994.
In mid -1995, Lewis received a phone call from Times's Internet Service Director Gordon Thompson and said that the newspaper wanted to be online as the “New York Times in the Cyberspace”, so he needed a winning NYTIMES.com domain. Discussions are being held internally over the short NYT.com URL registered by Marcov. (According to Markef's explanation, the Times thought that these three -letter URL would be confused with the Internet address of the New York phone.)
Markov said in a Friday e -mail that he had registered the NYT.com domain before the registration fee was incurred. However, Lewis paid a $ 35 fee to NYTIMES.com. Lewis said he would be happy to transfer the domain as long as he was refunded. He transferred the URL ownership to the Times, and the Times opened a website on January 19, 1996 from Hippo Dorome Office Building in Manhattan.
A few days later, the website was open to the world. Lewis interviewed the event in the newspaper, but was not involved in the launch.
As Marcov wrote in 2017, he finally transferred nyt.com on condition that he kept e -mail markoff@nyt.com and continued until 2016. And now, both URLs are sent to the home of Times. page.
But there is one problem. Lewis said he had never received a $ 35 refund.
We are working on it.