<story><title>Putting the Times’s First Email Address to Bed</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/insider/putting-the-timess-first-email-address-to-bed.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>comex</author><text>In the article&amp;#x27;s comments section, a notable comment from the Peter Lewis mentioned in the article:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;John, let the record show that The Times also initially turned down my free offer of the nytimes.com domain, which I had registered. A couple of years later they decided this internet thing was perhaps more than a fad, and demanded that I transfer ownership, which I willingly did. They still haven&amp;#x27;t reimbursed me for the registration fee :-)&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Putting the Times’s First Email Address to Bed</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/insider/putting-the-timess-first-email-address-to-bed.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>walshemj</author><text>Quite sweet in way that in 94&amp;#x2F;95 the NYT had not a clue about mail when some businesses had been running it for well over a decade by that point.</text></comment>