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Look how easy was the whole procedure. You just sent an email and boom next day your application's port was registered by IANA. Nowdays you must have a team of
by craftoman 7y ago
Look how easy was the whole procedure. You just sent an email and boom next day your application's port was registered by IANA. Nowdays you must have a team of academics backed up by Google to apply for that.
- oblio 7y agoThe internet was a sort of toy used by 10000 people. Nowadays you should need 2 teams of academics backed up by 4 companies and 2 governments to change anything. I'm not kidding. The internet of today should be like democracy: really hard and slow to change because sudden change is very disruptive.
- craftoman 7y agoYeah, that's my point. It was like a playground of technologists and hackers. I wish I was born earlier to experience this magic place.
- technothrasher 7y agoI remember applying for a Class C block of IP addresses back in 1993 was as simple as sending in a preformatted email template to InterNIC and getting your address space about twenty minutes later in a reply. I've still got that Class C registered, but it hasn't been used in years, and I'm not entirely sure what to do with it.
- genera1 7y agoYou could sell, or even better lease it out