On this day in 1985: the first .com domain name was registered. Today, there are 1.8 billion websites.pic.twitter.com/GDdkbfztiO
Domain names and web sites are not identical. You can use domains just for email, or not at all. And http://news.ycombinator.com and http://www.ycombinator.com are distinct sites despite having the same domain.
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Paul coming in with the knowledge
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Thanks for sharing the distinction Paul. How were your YC 16th celebrations? Planning for the Stripe blast off?
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Coming from the guy who doesn’t secure his site in 2021
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HTTPS is only useful if clients send data to the server. Merely reading data does not necessarily justify the overhead.
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Names resolution and web sites
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So what was the tweet supposed to be. What happened on this day in On this day in 1985?
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Ha! pretty clear distinction for a guy who didn’t want people calling him out for England and UK distinction
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Yes, also evident in it being 1985 of course. That said, the web would have been a flop had we still needed to get our hostnames on to HOSTS.TXT at SRI-NIC so I think the "then and now" is still very interesting!
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