It’s always helpful to know a bit of search history while learning SEO.
Learning SEO involves observing and analyzing the nature of internet search and it’s progressive evolution. Ever learning. Ever changing. Ever growing.
That said, here’s some tidbits of the beginnings of internet masterpieces that we take advantage of daily and know very little about:
Firstly, the internet..
The internet was in sight in the 1950’s/early 1960’s better known as inter-networking but had not not quite been the internet that we use today! They communicated through what’s called gateways or Network bridges basically for single use purposes.
The internet as WE know it is a group of interconnected computers which are linked together by copper wires, wireless reciprocation, and fiber optics. It harbors the World Wide Web. .
The World Wide Web is made up of a multitude of resources such as documents, URL’s, hyperlinks, text, images, domains, etc..
Domain Name System (DNS)
The Domain Name System was born in 1984. top-level domains were defined in 1985 and these were .com, .org, .edu, .gov, .mil (military), and ccTLD (reserved for a country or dependent territory. Identifiers being 2 letters long. All 2 letter top-level domains are ccTLD’s.)
Who were the Domain Pioneers? (first registrars)
* .com - Symbolics.com (March 15, 1985)
* .edu - Columbia.edu, Purdue.edu, rice.edu, and ucla.edu (April 24, 1985)
* .gov - css.gov (1985)
* .org - mitr.org (July 1985)
I am still unclear as to who the other pioneers were. Maybe if you know, you can help me out!
One last tidbit…
I once reported the history of Search Engine Optimization before it extended to the marketing category. There are those who persons are strictly organic search optimizers:
“Organic search is the use of algorithmic search engine techniques as opposed to pay-per-click techniques.”
Search Engine Marketing, on the other hand, is additional services that enhance and exceed organic search options or Search Engine Optimization. SEM covers a wide array of arena’s such as Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns, submissions of URL’s to directories, and management of other paid services and marketing strategies.
Here’s what you may not have already heard..Danny Sullivan, is the first person to ever coin the term SEM (Search Engine Marketing) in 2001.
Well, that’s it for now!
Have fun learning SEO!
