a.k.a - Domain names - How the mess came about
or
"How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything"
This is a tag team lecture by Jonathan Zittrain and Terry Fisher which covers the entire history of domain names from the beginning of the Internet to the present day.
Jonathan and Terry - Part 1 of 4 (Small - 60 MB)
Jonathan and Terry - Part 2 of 4 (Small - 54 MB)
Jonathan and Terry - Part 3 of 4 (Small - 50 MB)
Jonathan and Terry - Part 4 of 4 (Small - 52 MB)
I don't have any notes for this section, but I do have a ton of pictures.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons License.
Thank you very much. I learned new things.
And you (or someone behind/beside you?) asking a question was rather cool, it was like virtual reality. ... Or something.
Im addicted to domains :|
thanks for the nice read :)
My site on domain names (domains.dan.info) has an article along similar lines (how domains were invented by geeks and screwed up by marketing types and lawyers):
http://domains.dan.info/structure/intro.html
Nice :)
Posted by: Blog Forum on October 19, 2003 07:48 PM