20 Jul
2008
20 Jul
'08
8:35 a.m.
actually mentioning that,
wasn't there a point in time around 1994-1996 where you *HAD* to use the
"www" for domains, no matter what?
my memory is a little hazy on exact times of finite events, but I seem to recall that.
I remember a period where you couldn't actually reach a site without the stupid
"www" up front,
and when I mentioned doing it, people would give you this big scared look like "oh
no, you can't do THAT!"
yikes.
those were the crazy, hazy days of the (cough) "net"
Dan.
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:01:36 -0400
From: db at db.net
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:34:00PM -0400, Evan Koblentz wrote:
gopher, veronica....
It's hugely funny or sad to see domain registrar's automatically
prefixing domain names with 'www'. I have often joked to others that
we could safely remove the destination port from tcp/ip packets, after
all, it's always going to be port 80 right? We could save two bytes
per packet. (Again, I was joking! apart from DNS and e-mail not working
it would work fine right? ;-) )
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>>> When did Mosaic come out? If you want to pick a point in time when
the Internet changed from a specialist tool to a worldwide utility,
that would be the one.
Mosaic made the WEB into a public tool, but remember, the web is just one
application residing on the Internet.