Re: [TUHS] Happy birthday, symbolics.com!

On 15 Mar 2018 08:14 +1100, from dave(a)horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall): 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@NIC" or "Hinden@BBN-Unix"). That one is dated January 1983. The August 1982 (!?) RFC 821 has example SMTP conversations that use addresses on the form foo(a)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? -- Michael Kjörling • https://michael.kjorling.se • michael(a)kjorling.se “The most dangerous thought that you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.” (Bret Victor)