My understanding: arbitrary decision back in the 80s. People needed some kind of label-to-ip-address resolution protocol, and why not make it hierarchical? A to

My understanding: arbitrary decision back in the 80s. People needed some kind of label-to-ip-address resolution protocol, and why not make it hierarchical? A top-level-domain is just the top of the hierarchy in the domain name system. Someone correct me if there's a juicier anecdote. Here is what I mourn: that we write subdomains from right to left, instead of right to left. We see it in programming namespaces, but I still wish we had com.foo.bar.baz instead of baz.bar.foo.com