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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. Go Trojans by Chromodromic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As in football, so in networking.

    --
    Chr0m0Dr0m!C
  2. Smart to post this today... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...because this time tomorrow, we're all going to be busy drooling over or pooh-poohing what Jobs [officially] unveils at WWDC.

  3. RELEASE THE 5DWM! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Eric Masson, you are full of shit... RELEASE THE DAMN CODE!

  4. Shut up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Before a release a load into your mouth.
    (And it's Erik Masson, you ignorant fuck)
    -EM

  5. Why space is good for Hindus by vga_init · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Actually being in space will help the yogi better visualize the scale of the reality that they assocaite themselves in with respect to their world and the rest of the universe, thus helping the yogi to better be able to form a broader self-identy which will make his earthly problems seem more insignificant and help clear the pathway to acheiving infinite being, infinite conciousness, and infinite happiness. :)

    I'm happy for China, but I'm rooting for India on this one.

  6. Re:birthday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Sure!

    http://www.goatse.cx/contrib/goatsecake.jpg