[ih] Domain Names

[vint at google.com (Vint Cerf)]

yes the bang-path was parallel.

eventually they met when gateways linked hosts in the two systems.

v

On Jan 20, 2010, at 1:15 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> In this discussion of the development of the DNS structure, am I  
> wrong in believing:
>
>  that the HOSTS.TXT "system" was a direct antecedent of the DNS, but
>
>  the BITNET, "bang-path", FIDO structures (and probably some I have
>  forgotten about or never knew about) were parallel to but not
>  much part of the genealogy of the DNS?
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