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" ... around 1993 as it became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online" I remember "io.org" as the shortes
by rsync 10y ago
" ... around 1993 as it became https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internex_Online"
I remember "io.org" as the shortest domain name I knew in 1993 and adopted it as my default password for anonymous ftp logins.
In fact to this day if I login as anonymous on an ftp server, muscle memory dictates I type in "k@io.org" as my password.
- Jaruzel 10y agoRecently I discovered the domain: m.me It's the shortest useful domain name I know.
- ethomson 10y agoThat's funny - I have always simply typed `ethomson@` as my password for anonymous FTP, without ever specifying the hostname portion. The then-popular wu-ftpd had an option to enforce that there was a `@` in the password for anonymous access, but it didn't verify anything after that. I read somewhere that therefore a reasonable shorthand was to drop the hostname portion of your address since the FTP server knew your source hostname anyway. So this is similarly etched into _my_ muscle memory, but looking back I have no idea where I read this or if it was actually common at all or if I was the only one.