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When I was knee high to an elf I recall that a couple browsers (IE5 and Netscape were the ones I tested) did seem to lookup .com for the term. This was before t
by protocolture 2y ago
When I was knee high to an elf I recall that a couple browsers (IE5 and Netscape were the ones I tested) did seem to lookup .com for the term. This was before the URL bar became a search box. But you could reliably type something like hotmail or cute or joke and get to the correct website. The problems from there are super obvious and I am not surprised this no longer works.
- pests 2y agoThis was indeed how it worked before the search bar and address bar were combined into the same input And it's another (legacy) reason .com was so popular / important being the one the browser would default to.