On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt at 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... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com