Domain names and phone nubers are almost exactly the same thing and I'll tell you why, when you get a phone installed you get a number 555-1234 when you hook a computer to the internet you get a IP adress, 255.254.253.252, now say you want a easyer to remember phone number say "call-bob" you can contact the phone company and if the numbers available and willing to pay what they ask "call-bob" is yours as long as you keep paying for it the same is true about the computer connected to the net, want a easyer name say www.netbob.com insted of a string of numbers you contact a domain registration servis and if its available you can get it for a small fee, both of the seervis phone and DNS are basicly the same after that, if you dont pay for it, they take it away , if you try to get your phone number "1800-mcdonald" bascily couse you wanted the name, you can get sued same as on the web, there are always gray areas such as if your name just happen to be Mc Donald then its up to the cort to deturm if your intent was to break copyright violation
its very usefull when looking up old information about old computer hardware, an example mite be, if you pick up a used scsi card thats a year old or so, just pop over to dejanews search the archive for info on wether it works with linux or whatever, or , how to make it work
theres lots of resons for old usenet archives, manytimes if im looking for something that would be a pain in the ass to find on dogpile, like howto do this or that, without getting 1000 of pages of worthless linux man page listings, I search deja, and many times get a awnser to the same question someone asked long ago
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Domain names and phone nubers are almost exactly the same thing and I'll tell you why, when you get a phone installed you get a number 555-1234 when you hook a computer to the internet you get a IP adress, 255.254.253.252, now say you want a easyer to remember phone number say "call-bob" you can contact the phone company and if the numbers available and willing to pay what they ask "call-bob" is yours as long as you keep paying for it the same is true about the computer connected to the net, want a easyer name say www.netbob.com insted of a string of numbers you contact a domain registration servis and if its available you can get it for a small fee, both of the seervis phone and DNS are basicly the same after that, if you dont pay for it, they take it away , if you try to get your phone number "1800-mcdonald" bascily couse you wanted the name, you can get sued same as on the web, there are always gray areas such as if your name just happen to be Mc Donald then its up to the cort to deturm if your intent was to break copyright violation
its very usefull when looking up old information about old computer hardware, an example mite be, if you pick up a used scsi card thats a year old or so, just pop over to dejanews search the archive for info on wether it works with linux or whatever, or , how to make it work theres lots of resons for old usenet archives, manytimes if im looking for something that would be a pain in the ass to find on dogpile, like howto do this or that, without getting 1000 of pages of worthless linux man page listings, I search deja, and many times get a awnser to the same question someone asked long ago