"first" computer on the internet

[Dan Gahlinger]

actually mentioning that,

wasn't there a point in time around 1994-1996 where you *HAD* to use the "www" for domains, no matter what?

my memory is a little hazy on exact times of finite events, but I seem to recall that.

I remember a period where you couldn't actually reach a site without the stupid "www" up front,
and when I mentioned doing it, people would give you this big scared look like "oh no, you can't do THAT!"

yikes.

those were the crazy, hazy days of the (cough) "net"

Dan.
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> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:01:36 -0400
> From: db at db.net
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: "first" computer on the internet
> 
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:34:00PM -0400, Evan Koblentz wrote:
>>>>>> When did Mosaic come out?  If you want to pick a point in time when
>> the Internet changed from a specialist tool to a worldwide utility,
>> that would be the one.
>>
>> Mosaic made the WEB into a public tool, but remember, the web is just one
>> application residing on the Internet.
> 
> gopher, veronica....
> 
> It's hugely funny or sad to see domain registrar's automatically
> prefixing domain names with 'www'. I have often joked to others that
> we could safely remove the destination port from tcp/ip packets, after
> all, it's always going to be port 80 right? We could save two bytes
> per packet. (Again, I was joking! apart from DNS and e-mail not working
> it would work fine right? ;-) )
> 
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