How did the New York Times website get its URL?

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On 22 January 1996, In an article hidden on page d7The New York Times announced a public launch of its website.
The article states, “New York Times has started daily publication on the World Wide Web today, which provides immediate access to most of the content of daily newspapers to readers around the world.” Peter H. Lewis. “Electronic newspaper (address: http://www.nytimes.com) The Times is part of the strategy to increase the reader number.”
Mr. Lewis had the same URL at one time.
In 1985, Times editors AM Rosanthal and Arthur Gailb formed a task force in 2000 to work on a project called The New York Times, including Mr. Lewis. Mr. Lewis shared the project and the details about himself, Times works in an email, which takes out the most part of this account.
Then the editor and personal computer columnist of the Science Section, Mr. Lewis, recalled the prediction that until the millennium, the articles of the Times would be read on the personal computer screen in cyberspace.
“I remember Aarti rejected me by shaking her hand,” Mr. Lewis wrote about Mr. Gelb.
Years later, Editor Bill Stockton, which Mr. Lewis said that he was a supporter of science and technology reporting, tasked Mr. Lewis to cover “the rise of internet”.
At some point, “I sought permission to register a web domain for The Times, and I was refused,” Mr. Lewis wrote in the email. “Many of us thought that it was short -sightedness.”
Another reporter, John Markoff, who joined The Times to cover computer networking in 1988, registered nyt.com Shortly after starting your role. (They used it for email; they did not set a web page on the domain, so when people tried to see it, they received an error warning.) And Mr. Lewis inquired about it. nytimes.com Late of 1993 or early 1994.
In mid -1995, Mr. Lewis received a call from Gordon Thompson, manager of The Times Internet services, said that the newspaper wanted to go online as “The New York Times in Cyberspace” and needed Nytimes.com Domain Was won. In internal discussion on the small nyt.com URL registered by Mr. Markoff. (According to Mr. Markoff’s details, The Times thought that the three -letter URL would be confused with the internet address of the New York Telephone.)
In an email on Friday, Mr. Markoff said that he had registered Nyt.com domain before levying the registration fee. But Mr. Lewis paid a $ 35 fee for nytimes.com. Mr. Lewis said that he is happy to hand over the domain – until he is reimbursed. He transferred the URL ownership to The Times, which activated the website from the Hippodrome office building in Manhattan on 19 January 1996.
A few days later, the website became live worldwide. Mr. Lewis was not involved in the launch, although he covered the program for the newspaper.
As Mr. Markoff wrote in 2017, he eventually handed over nyt.com on the condition that he would have to keep his email, markofff@nyt.com, which he did till 2016. And today both URL sends readers to The Times home. Page.
But there is a problem: Mr. Lewis said that he never got a $ 35 reimbursement.
We are working on it.
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