A link to the company might have been sufficient, but ...


Linking the word Velcro to the web site of Velcro Industries is predictable enough to be superfluous. If anybody really wants information on the company, the most obvious guess would be www.velcro.com, and it would be a good, and correct, guess. Even if someone doesn't know how to guess, numerous tools are today available on the market that let you highlight the word and run a search on it, and the obvious first result would be (again) velcro.com.

But had I left things at that, I wouldn't have found a place to link to an interesting question. As was to be expected, the Velcro web site has, among other, probably less interesting, elements, a page devoted to the history of the company. Why is it that this page is identified as a page for kids. The suggestion seems to be that adults would choose to visit the site because they have some sort of business interest, whereas kids, if for some reason, like a school report that's been assigned them, find themselves on the site, have a justified reason for learning something interesting about the company. This particular page doesn't contain information any different from what's readily available about the history/folklore of Velcro from other sources, but it definitely straight from the horse's mouth.


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