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gsb on Sept 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lessons for uncultured web developers

> You could buy a .com address years before the internet existed outside the US.

The .com tld was created in 1984, at which point there had already been international links for over a decade, so that doesn't really support the argument.

klodolph on Sept 10, 2012 [–]

I thought that the links, at the time, went mostly to other networks -- ones running X.25 or something.

mtoddh on Sept 10, 2012 | [–]

X.25 - that is a blast from the past. I think JANET and Autonet had gateways where you could hop from one to the other (ie, TCP/IP to X.25).

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