From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 30 May 2017, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.internet.wireless, in article   
   , Eli the Bearded wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin   wrote:   
      
   >> Long gone are the days of just _five_ generic domains (.com, .edu,   
   >> .gov, .mil, and .org) as defined in RFC0920 (October 1984).   
      
   >Huh, I never knew of that document. RFC1591 (March 1994) adds the ever   
   >popular .INT (popular as in not really used, except for nato.int) and   
   >the country codes. That's the RFC I knew.   
      
   Actually. ISO-3166 Country codes were part of RFC0920.   If you really   
   want to go back, have a look at RFC0819 from August 1982 - where there   
   was _one_ domain proposed - .arpa  (RFC0799 from September 1981 is one   
   of the earlier proposals - lots of hand-waving, not much concrete.)   
      
   >> I'm still seeing a few firewall hits on 70/tcp - SOMEBODY didn't get   
   >> the word.    But we have WAIS to figure that out.   
      
   Was that a "whoosh-bird"?   WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) was one   
   of the first general search-engines - Try RFC1625.    Haven't seen   
   anyone stroking 210/tcp lately - so maybe they've given up on it.   
      
   >> Maybe ask "archie"?   
      
   >Floodgap:   
   >gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/   
      
   >Has a Veronica:   
   >gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/v2   
      
   "Veronica" (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized   
   Archives) was an index to gopher servers.   
      
   >But not an Archie.   
      
   Supposedly, there is still one out-there.  I'm not sure how useful it   
   might be (see the wonkypedia page).   
      
   >My recollection is Archie was for ftp searches. I remember getting   
   >results by email. And wikipedia confirms my recollections:   
      
   Way back then, there were a handful of systems out there, mainly   
   running on college servers (but that pre-supposed you had real-time   
   Internet access - many did not).  I used to access the one at unl.edu   
   via telnet - once you logged in (as user "archie") you could search   
   the local listings - which might lead you to another archie server   
   that had what you were looking for.     Wonder how many remember   
   servers like simtel20 or wuarchive, or the well-named "rtfm.mit.edu".   
   I used to have a weekly cron-job that connected to sunsite to grab a   
   copy of the /pub/linux/ls-lR.gz file (a recursive directory listing   
   created nightly) so I could 'zdiff' it to see "what's new".   
      
           Old guy   
      
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