137: The Origins of the Internet with John Day
Programming Throwdown
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Is It a Dfalt by Default?
In 19 75, when we put thefr unic system on then nat we hacked pilio to do it. So what you would type is, open you c s d, slash telldaand we give you atoma connection. There are no domain names in 75. However, a few years later, when they were getting eunuchs ready, in the b s d version of eunuch, billjoy insisted on doing sockets,. which is a terrible api, about the worst you can expect. In fact, i've heard that microsos adoption of ip v six was lag two years while they had to change all of the programmes that accessed the net because h sockets now dealt with
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