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bshimmin on April 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: elgooG

Ah yes, I remember those (dimly!)... though if you were sending mail to them it was still `user@` at the start. I don't remember when JANET reversed their ordering to match everyone else's - mid-nineties, maybe?

danellis on April 1, 2015 [–]

Wikipedia says it started hosting IP traffic in 1991, so that's probably when they started using DNS.

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