Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/March 15

frameless|right Today in 1985 the first (non-toplevel) Internet domain name was registered. While contributing to the success of the Internet through more human-friendly addresses, the Domain Name System also introduced a hierarchical Achilles heel to the originally decentralized Internet, since each computer holding a list of every other was considered impractical. Distributed hash tables brought a solution to this problem 16 years later. March 14 March 16