[2601] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NAVYJOBS.COM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dalvenjah FoxFire)
Mon Apr 22 00:29:16 1996
From: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenja@ict.org>
To: smd@smdbox.icp.net (Sean Doran)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:28:50 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604220136.SAA00348@smdbox.icp.net> from "Sean Doran" at Apr 21, 96 06:36:17 pm
Sean Doran put this into my mailbox:
>
>
> I was happily watching the hockey playoffs just now
> (well, as happily as possible without Hockey Night in Canada),
> and noticed a commercial for U.S. Navy Recruiting.
>
> Why why why why why are they in .COM?!
I wondered this too, at first, then remembered that Netscape allows
the user to enter simply 'navyjobs' in the URL field, and Netscape
will automatically prepend "http://www." and append ".com" to the
entry.
Ah, commercialization...
-Sven Nielsen
Dalvenjah FoxFire, the Teddy Dragon (also known as Sven Nielsen to some :)
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