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I wonder if the browsers themselves weren't responsible for the reversal of this trend. Back in the day, if you typed something into address bar, there wasn't a "fallback to search" like we have today.


Well, some older browsers would try slapping .com at the end, and adding www at the start too, if no domain was found...

So just typing sex could be fruitful...




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