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> it’s almost 40 years old I was shocked that DNS was only almost 40 years old - I would have guessed it was at least older than me, but she's right. Accordin
by commandlinefan 5y ago
> it’s almost 40 years old
I was shocked that DNS was only almost 40 years old - I would have guessed it was at least older than me, but she's right. According to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc882 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc882 it's almost 10 years younger...
- betterunix2 5y agoThe Internet is not much older; it is reasonable to say that the Internet started in 1982 when TCP/IP was first standardized, though some would say that the Internet started a few years later with the creation of NSFNet and its interconnection with other networks.
- egberts1 5y ago.ARPA domain is older than 1982, so TCP/IP was in force before standardization. Fun times.