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I had no clue domains were available before I was born... that's quite a strange thought. For some reason, I was thinking they wouldn't have been around before
by jere 13y ago
I had no clue domains were available before I was born... that's quite a strange thought. For some reason, I was thinking they wouldn't have been around before the web.
A dumb question, but what exactly would you do with a domain name before 1990? Email is all I can think of.
- alextingle 13y agoThe web is just port 80 (& 443). There are 65533 other ports out there, not to speak of whole other protocols such as UDP - what are they used for? Just look at the first dozen or so lines of /etc/services and you'll get a very good picture of what services were important in the early Internet.
- larrys 13y ago"The web is just port 80" That's actually a really good important point. Most people wrongly equate a domain not having a web page at port 80 with "it's not being used".
- epc 13y agoemail, file transfers, netnews (usenet). X-Windows and Andrew started mid-1980s. AFS relied on DNS to figure out where cellservers were. Gopher started 1989-1990. ftp was in wide use. There was a lot of activity on the Internet well before the web started. Tiny compared to today of course.