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To be more specific, RFC 597 says: "Note: The names listed on this map
are unofficial IMP names, NOT official Host names." Who assigned
Official Host Names, and what did they look like?<br>
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On 1/19/2010 8:21 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4B5684B7.50209@bennett.com" type="cite">We're
coming up on the 25th anniversary of the first domain name
registration, that of symbolics.com on March 15, 1985. Not the first
domain name created, but the first one registered in the fledgling
domain name system. Since I'm too old to remember that era, I'm
wondering if anybody has any salient observations about what the
Internet was like before the domain name system was created. How did
people keep track of everything?
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I seem to remember a cumbersome system of bang addresses for e-mail
that apparently arose out of UUCP, but wasn't there a more elegant
system of naming for ARPANET and the fledgling Internet before 1985? I
have the feeliing that there will be some events to commemorate the
rise of the Dot Com era, and it would be nice if some of the facts were
more or less in order.
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Thanks,
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RB
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Richard Bennett
Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC</pre>
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