I wonder if today's #webdev communities are so young they can't remember or weren't born when the NSF held domain names. "What a time it was it was a time of innocence...a time of confidences..." - Simon and Garfunkel Am I just old and grumpy and want these kids off my lawn? ;-)
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Then there was the time before domain names. For those who are old enough, it was the era of bang addressing and routing maps of computer links. Sending an email involved manually defining the route instead of domain names.
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Replying to @ColorSimulation
That activity was before my time with Internet. I came to it via gopher and friends. Gopher and WAIS were the two coolest IMO before the Web.

Apr 11, 2019 · 6:19 PM UTC

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Replying to @mholzschlag
I remember Gopher very well. I was the technical manager for the first commercial ISP in Jerusalem. We had a huge Gopher site. The whole site was converted to HTML with a single awk script.
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Replying to @mholzschlag
My involvement with the Internet began in 1969 with the first demonstration of ARPANET. I was in the USAF, and spending a lot of time at DARPA.
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