On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Tilman Schmidt t.schmidt@phoenixsoftware.de wrote:
On 04/20/2012 05:19 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
You mean when the internet consisted of defense contractors and the universities in that business? I prefer 'open to the public', even with the baggage it brings.
Nope, I mean the early nineties, when the Internet was still young and largely spam free, but definitely not limited to U.S. defense anymore, the web was just one of those novel ideas, and my boss asked me why on earth we should request a public IP address block when UUCP worked just as well for E-mail. (He didn't know about Usenet, thankfully, otherwise he'd probably have prohibited it.)
Yeah, I remember those days too. I was the original technical contact for fb.com when you could still get 2 letter domain names practically for the asking. I understand that name was sold to facebook a while back for a very large sum of money. Times change...