[TUHS] Happy birthday, symbolics.com!

[Dave Horsfall]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Tony Finch wrote:

> As I understand it, the old hosts.txt registrations got grandfathered 
> into the DNS in the .arpa zone - they were ARPANET hosts (e.g. see RFC 
> 921). The modern structure was set up after the transition to IP, so 
> it's fair to call .com and friends Internet domains. (See RFC 920.)

Yeah, I was referring to DNS as opposed to HOSTS.TXT of course.

> But it looks like there were a bunch of .edu and .gov names before 
> Symbolics.

I'm happy to be corrected/updated; I happen to have an interest in geeky 
history (as if that wasn't apparent).

> -- 
> f.anthony.n.finch  <dot at dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/  -  I xn--zr8h punycode
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> south, decreasing 4 at times in north. Moderate or rough in northern and
> eastern North Utsire, otherwise rough or very rough. Fair. Good.

OK, I'll bite: how do you do this?

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