Labels:book | daily | newspaper | plant | sky OCR: THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY HISTORY, CAREERS AND ETHICS 499 What about dop coms? The 1990s spawned a group of Internet- t-based companies that came to be called dot coms. The dot com moniker came from the companies' domain names, which inevitably ended with .com; many of the companies even incorporated .com into their official company names. Amazon. com was one of the first Internet- -based companies. Founded in 1995 the company's mission is to "use the Internet to transform book buy- ing into the fastest, easiest and most enjoyable shopping experience possible To transform book buying, Amazon. .com set up Web site where customers can buy books online, without walking into a physical brick-and- mortar store Unless top com sells computers peripherals, or software online it is prob- ably not consi ...
