Dot-Com Is A Word

from the phew dept

Now that no one in their right mind wants to be identified as a "dot-com", the Oxford English Dictionary has decided to include it in their latest edition. This goes along with cut-and-paste, screensavers and search engines in the technology world. I'm surprised that most of these took so long to become "official".
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    Ed Halley, 9 Jun 2003 @ 6:51am

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    The writeup didn't give any hint as to whether it will be defined only in the dryest online business sense, or whether it will describe the negative post-bubble connotations: "I've deleted three more inflated resumes from dot-coms."

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