The internet celebrates a landmark event on the 15 March – the 25th birthday of the day the first dotcom name was registered.<br/><br/>In March 1985, Symbolics computers of Cambridge, Massachusetts entered the history books with an internet address ending in dotcom. <br/><br/>That same year another five companies jumped on a very slow bandwagon. <br/>It took until 1997, well into the internet boom, before the one millionth dotcom was registered. <br/><br/>For most of the late 1980s and early 1990s hardly anyone knew what a dotcom was. Scholars generally agree that a turning point was the introduction of the Mosaic web browser by Netscape that brought mainstream consumers on to the web. With 668,000 dotcom sites registered every month, they have become part of the fabric of our lives.<br/> <br/>Today people go to dotcom sites to shop, connect with friends, book holidays, be entertained, learn new things and exchange ideas.