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This is about the .net TLD and has nothing to do with .NET the framework. It doesn't take long to realize this, it's even outright obvious considering ICANN is
by Zecc 3y ago
This is about the .net TLD and has nothing to do with .NET the framework.
It doesn't take long to realize this, it's even outright obvious considering ICANN is involved, but still... It seems weird to me that they would write .NET and .COM rather than .net and .com even if DNS is case-insensitive.
- lolinder 3y agoUsing all caps goes back to the very first RFCs, so they probably stick to that for historical reasons even if the modern convention is lowercase. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc920#page-2 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc920#page-2
- mindslight 3y agoI think in the past, internet signals were much weaker so EVERYONE HAD TO YELL to get their message through. Either that or 1-bits were in short supply.
- tenebrisalietum 3y agoNO, HERE IS THE REASON WHY: - THE INTERNET STARTED IN THE 1960'S. - THE FIRST VIDEO DISPLAY TERMINALS THAT CAME OUT IN THE 70'S DIDN'T SUPPORT LOWERCASE, E.G. THE DEC VT05. - PHYSICAL TELETYPES AT THE TIME ALSO WEREN'T GUARANTEED TO SUPPORT LOWERCASE, LIKE THE DECWRITER LA05.
- derefr 3y agoFun fact: the earliest versions of the ASCII standard only had encodings for uppercase letters. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#History)
- Xorakios 3y agoFORTRAN, COBOL and BASIC all used all caps in the 70s when I started to learn programming. People thought I was a nutcase for abandoning cursive in high school! And don't get me started on punch card programming in college in 1980 :)
- eyegor 3y agoDespite ~60 years of updates, the fortran language still isn't case sensitive.
- Wowfunhappy 3y agoWhy were people still using punchcards in the 80s?
- tanseydavid 3y agoTo make confetti out of the chads for parades. ;)
- Xorakios 3y agoAlas, at Princeton University 1980 that was the only way to submit programs. I was doing tech support for professors as part of my work-study package and a couple hours a week on a green-bar paper teletype sorta like this was a huge benefit: https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/teletype_model_33_illustration.jpg?trim=1,1&bg-color=000&pad=1,1 https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/teletyp...
- cesarb 3y agoFun trick (I don't know if it still works): on the login prompt of your Linux (or other Unix) machine, type your username in all caps. This sets some strange termios(3) modes, which convert all lowercase output to UPPERCASE and all UPPERCASE input to lowercase. These modes are, AFAIK, for compatibility with these uppercase-only terminals.
- tracker1 3y agogood luck with multi-case passwords...
- codetrotter 3y agoWait. You guys use passwords on your computers??
- chrismorgan 3y agoJust tried it. Didn’t work. (I tried it on a regular Linux virtual terminal (as is my normal way—I don’t use a graphical login manager), with my password in correct/inverted/upper/lower case, none work. It’s conceivable a pam module could make it work or something like that. I’m not investigating.)
- op00to 3y agoIs your distribution still using getty?
- chrismorgan 3y agoArch Linux with no meaningful configuration changes in this area. I understand so.
- op00to 3y agoIt's possible they disabled the switch in getty that enables the uppercase detection, it's -U....
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoHuh? In 70s? But first version of Unix in C was written in lowercase.
- saghm 3y agoAfter over 20 years of ambiguity, I don't think I'd honestly have the energy to worry about this if I were the person at ICANN deciding the headlines; it could have easily been avoided had the .NET framework just picked a less confusing name.