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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. birthday? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    well buy me a goatse birthday cake!!!

  2. I'm sorry by Gothmolly · · Score: 1, Troll

    that you're using BIND. When you get r00ted next week when the LATEST hole is dicovered, maybe you'll switch to a real DNS server.
    Yes, Nehril, this is a troll.

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  3. Re:i never know what to post in celebration thread by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Go have sex with a horse, you fucking faggot.

  4. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe second, I'll give you that much, but I feel fairly certain that this is the first. Suck my bits and bytes.

  5. Re:it's called LDAP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Illeagally torpedoing the power market in Northern CA certainly didn't help the tech economy. (My theory: Bush knew a recession was coming and wanted it early term rather than in 2004. So he got help from his political pals at Enron by targetting a politically unfriendly area to speed up the crash.)

    Also, trying to peg the segment's woes on "dotcoms" is Year 2000-style thinking. There's a huge systematic slowdown in IT spending thats far more serious that poopscoops.com wasting $10M and then going under.