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Happy Birthday, Dear DNS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the better-than-most-tlas dept.

Shloka writes with a snippet from Wired News: "Twenty years ago Monday, two computer scientists at the University of Southern California created a key component essential to the modern Internet. Jon Postel and Paul Mockapetris ran the first successful test of the automated domain name system, or DNS..."

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  1. C'mon by Isbiten · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No need to post Wired articles all the time. If you like them so much you might as well go there and read them everyday.

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  2. uhm, who cares? by ReLik · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    how about we think about our war dead? and celebrate people who have given the ultimate sacrifice, rather than singing happy birthday to a bunch of geeks who did stuff which would have only been done by someone else anyway.

    look at your priorities.

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