| The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002. |
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| Part of the Internet address of many companies and organizations. It indicates that the site is commercial, as opposed to educational or governmental. | 1 |
| ‡ The phrase dot-com is used to refer generically to almost anything connected to business on the Internet. | 2 |
| ‡ The explosive growth of wealth connected to the Internet in the 1990s is often said to have created many “dot-com millionaires.” | 3 |
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| | | The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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