Amaya Toman In today's installment of our regular "historical" series, we'll remember the day the Apple.com domain was registered. This happened quite a few years before the mass expansion of the Internet, and the registration was not initiated by Steve Jobs. In the second part, we will move to the not-so-distant past - we remember the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook.
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Creation of Apple.com (1987)
On February 19, 1987, the Internet domain name Apple.com was officially registered. The registration occurred four years before the public launch of the World Wide Web. According to witnesses, absolutely nothing was paid for domain registration at that time, the domain registry at that time was called "Network Information Center" (NIC). In this context, Eric Fair - one of the former employees of Apple - once said that the domain was most likely registered by his predecessor Johan Strandberg. At that time, Steve Jobs was no longer working at Apple, so he understandably had nothing to do with the registration of this domain name. The Next.com domain was registered only in 1994.
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WhatsApp acquisition (2014)
On February 19, 2014, Facebook acquired the communication platform WhatsApp. For the purchase, Facebook paid four billion dollars in cash and another twelve billion dollars in shares, the number of WhatsApp users at the time was less than half a billion. There has been speculation about the acquisition for some time, and Mark Zuckerberg said at the time that the acquisition was worth a huge amount to Facebook. As part of the acquisition, WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum became one of the members of Facebook's board of directors. WhatsApp was and still is a free application that was very popular among users. But at the turn of 2020 and 2021, the company announced an upcoming change to the terms of use, which many users did not like. The number of people who used this communication platform began to decrease rapidly, and along with it, the popularity of some competing applications, especially Signal and Telegram, increased.
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