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MetalliMyers
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Date Posted: 6/23/2011 1:57:55 PM Subject: A good explanation of how domain names work
http://www.howtogeek.com/news/june-23-1983-first-successful-test-of-the-domain-name-system-geek-history/5375/
Nearly 30 years ago the first Domain Name System (DNS) was tested and it changed the way we interacted with the internet. Nearly impossible to remember number addresses became easy to remember names.
Without DNS you’d be browsing a web where numbered addresses pointed to numbered addresses. Google, for example, would look like http://209.85.148.105/ in your browser window. That’s assuming, of course, that a numbers-based web every gained enough traction to be popular enough to spawn a search giant like Google. How did this shift occur and what did we have before DNS?
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