At 11:07 AM 12/11/2001 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: > > From: Jim Choate[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > http://slashdot.org/articles/01/12/11/0727218.shtml > >It's nostalgic to see all the bang!path addresses and .arpa hosts.
I was surprised that among their lists for first this and that they didn't list the first use of a .com, .net, or .edu address on Usenet. There were lots of @-style addresses even in the first few months (viz. the TCP-IP-Digest article), but they were pre-DNS person@machine formats, where the machine names were relative to the sender's hosts [.txt] file and were therefore not in theory globally unique names, though in practice they usually were.
