JTK wrote:
> WHAT WHAT WHAT?!?!? That would not be the Unix way! Frankly, I think
> this whole "domain name" silliness has gone on far too long. Why, when
> I was a young pup, we had to type in IP addresses in OCTAL, both ways,
> and we liked it! "DNS", pfhht! Should be "DNMess" if'n ya ask me, you
> whippersnappers! So how about a message that sez: "TYPE IN AN IP
> ADDRESS YA LAZY KID! IN OCTAL!"
You young punks and your "keyboards" and "numbering systems". In MY day we input
IPs in binary, by manipulating the vacuum tube connections. If you made a
mistake, you spent a week finding the tube you blew out. And if you didn't get
shocked at least once, then you probably did it wrong.
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