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Just for giggles, does anyone else remember when "subdomains" were called "machine names" because physical devices were limited to one service? www. ftp. mail.
by Xorakios 3y ago
Just for giggles, does anyone else remember when "subdomains" were called "machine names" because physical devices were limited to one service?
www.
ftp.
mail.
... weren't theoretical or merely mnemonic.
Felt like an old coot when using "machine name" to a 40 year old IT professional and she was perplexed!
- semi 3y agoI'm a somewhat old coot and do remember those days, but I think the term still makes sense but only in a lan environment. machines still have hostnames, and home routers will often trust your dhcp clients machine name. So I can still look up steamdeck.lan and find the IP of my steam deck and in that context calling it a machine name is perfectly apt and I think would still be well understood.