2016 Jan 16, 6:11
2010 Dec 16, 3:33Fight favicons pokemon style.
humor game web favicon pokemon technical via:waxy 2009 Aug 11, 7:36Its like favicons on pillows.
cute internet geek pillow favicon social shopping 2009 Jun 1, 11:07
When I heard that
Live Search is now Bing one of my initial thoughts was how'd they get that domain
name given
the unavailability of pronouncable four letter .COM domain names. Well, the names been used in the past.
Here now, via the
Wayback Machine is a brief, somewhat speculative, and ultimately anticlimactic
history
of bing.com:
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2003 July: The first archived version of bing.com features "bing! is a small device (e.g., possibly even a small
Band-Aid(R)-like sticker!) that vibrates when a person's cell phone rings." I can't recall 2003 cell phones, were they big enough to require this device?
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2004 August: Site for the same device is rewritten and looks much better, IMHO.
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2006 June: The domain is now parked by easyDNS. I guess the "bing!" device didn't work out?
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2006 November: Its now "BING*" and they won't say what they're working on ("we're still in stealth mode") but they are
hiring C#/.NET developers.
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2007 January: And they're gone. Without even exiting stealth mode. Too bad, I liked their logo. Their domain is now for
sale...
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2007 February: Looks like EasyMail buys the domain and offers a physical mailing service in Australia: "By simply clicking
a button on your computer, mail is beamed electronically to a bing post office. Your mail is automatically printed, folded, enveloped and dispatched into the Australia Post network the very same
day."
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Present: Now its the new home for Live Search of course.
The new name reminds me of the show Friends. Also, I hope they get a new favicon - I don't enjoy the stretched 'b' nor its color scheme.
microsoft technical domain history search archive dns bing 2008 Jan 16, 2:53These are as bad as favicons! Boo on URI space squatting.
howto apple iphone icon favicon webdesign web ipod development via:swannman 2007 Jan 22, 9:42In my continued efforts to learn about random web things and implement them on my page, here's the W3C's document on favorite icons. Update: Well what they said to do sure doesn't work in IE =)
favicon w3c standards web icon html howto favorite
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