Jan 24th, 2008
Art.com
In today’s Web, domain names are all taken. One has to resort to a name that has little to do with the content of the site, such as Flickr.com for posting pictures.In 1996, when the Web was still in its infancy, populated with computer geeks, technicians and engineers, who would have made the link between art and technology? Therefore, it appears as no surprise that one would find an aerospace consultancy firm when entering ART.COM in his or her Mosaic browser [watch it here].
Specifically, the Advanced Rotorcraft Technology offered a small profile of their company on the homepage. Probably realizing that too many people were looking for art pieces when typing that domain name, they relocated to flightlab.com. ART.COM began offering art reproduction in 1998 [watch art.com in 1998 and today].
Such a long time ago and so recent…
