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On January 22, 1996, In an article tucked on the D7 pageThe New York Times has announced the general launch of its location.
“The New York Times begins publishing daily on the global Internet today, as it is presented to readers all over the world immediately to most of the contents of the daily newspapers,” he said. EssayBy Peter E. Lewis. “Electronic newspaper (Title: http: /www.nytimes.com) is part of a strategy to expand the readers of the times.”
Mr. Louis once had the URL.
In 1985, The Times Edits AM Rosenthal and Arthur Gelb collected a business band, which included Mr. Louis, to work in a project called New York Times in 2000. The times are working in an email, a lot of this account is drawn.
After that, he recalled an editor of the science department and a personal computers column, and expected that by the millennium, articles will be read on the personal computer screens, in the electronic space.
Mr. Louis wrote about Mr. Gilb: “I remember that Arte rejects me with a wave.”
Years later, Editor Bill Stockon, who said Mr. Louis, said that science and technology reports, Mr. Lewis, said to cover the “climbing of the Internet”.
At some point, “I asked for permission to register a web field for times, and he was told no,” Mr. Louis wrote in the email. “Many of us believe this was short.”
Another correspondent, John Markov, who joined times to cover computer networks in 1988, scored. Nyt.com Some time after starting his role. (I used it for email; he did not put a web page in the field, so people got a mistake when they tried to visit him.) And Mr. Louis pulled nytimes.com About late 1993 or early 1994.
In mid -1995, Mr. Louis received a call from Gordon Thompson, Director of the Times Internet Services, saying that the paper wanted to connect to the Internet as the “New York Times in the cyberspace” and needs the Nytimes.com field, which won the internal discussions about the Luxor URL NYT . (In the Markoff account, the Times believed that the URL of three letters will be confused with the Internet address on the phone in New York.)
In an email on Friday, Mr. Markov said he recorded the NYT.com field before there was registration fees. But Mr. Lewis paid a $ 35 fee for Nytimes.com. Mr. Lewis said he was happy to deliver the field – as long as he was compensated. Transfer of ownership URL to the afternoon The website was activated on January 19, 1996, from the Hippodrome offices building in Manhattan.
After a few days, the site was direct to the world. Mr. Louis did not participate at all, although he covered the newspaper’s event.
Mr. Markov was also written in 2017, Ultimate nyt.comOn the condition that you get his email, Markoff@nyt.com, which he did until 2016. Today, URL addresses send readers to the main page of Times.
But there is one problem: Mr. Lewis said that he had never received his payment of $ 35.
We are working on it.
