Oh sweet summer child. Back in the 1999 and 2000 Network Solutions was the only registrar (for North American TLDs) and it cost $35/year (and if memory serves you had to buy it initially for 2 years, and after that you could renew it for 1 year at a time). $35 in the year 2000 is worth $65.66 today.
Yep. It wasn’t cheap or easy back when they had the monopoly.
That’s back when ISP’s offered personal webpage hosting as part of your service. I setup my first webpage on my dialup ISP’s server. Family photos and such before the social media things got going.
I for many years after that for large file transfers. Just set up a landing index page and a folder for the file in FTP to activate it. Then share the http address to file.
Oh sweet summer child. Back in the 1999 and 2000 Network Solutions was the only registrar (for North American TLDs) and it cost $35/year (and if memory serves you had to buy it initially for 2 years, and after that you could renew it for 1 year at a time). $35 in the year 2000 is worth $65.66 today.
Yep. It wasn’t cheap or easy back when they had the monopoly.
That’s back when ISP’s offered personal webpage hosting as part of your service. I setup my first webpage on my dialup ISP’s server. Family photos and such before the social media things got going.
I for many years after that for large file transfers. Just set up a landing index page and a folder for the file in FTP to activate it. Then share the http address to file.