[TUHS] Happy birthday, symbolics.com!

[Arthur Krewat]

The key might be in the definition/timing of the term "Internet".

;)



On 3/14/2018 6:23 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
> On 15 Mar 2018 08:14 +1100, from dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall):
>> The first Internet domain, symbolics.com,
> What qualifies as an "Internet domain" in this context? I'm honestly
> curious about the definition you're using.
>
> Poking at RFCs at random, RFC 820 mentions mailboxes with SMTP-style
> (as opposed to e.g. UUCP) addresses, but with only a single label as
> the hostname (for example, "KLH at NIC" or "Hinden at BBN-Unix"). That one
> is dated January 1983.
>
> The August 1982 (!?) RFC 821 has example SMTP conversations that use
> addresses on the form foo at bar.ARPA. So the concept of domain names
> similar to today certainly existed before 1985, and the DNS RFCs
> (initially 1034, 1035) were only published in 1987...
>
> So by what definition would symbolics.com in 1985 be the first
> Internet domain registered?
>