jan 1, 1983 - Paul Mockapetris Invents Domain Name System
Description:
Paul Mockapetris expands the Internet beyond its academic origins by inventing the Domain Name System (DNS). John Klensin helps facilitate early procedural and definitional work for DNS administration and top-level domain definitions. DNS is super important because it first allowed the layman (or at least average non-college computer nerd) use the internet somewhat easily.Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1983
Now
~ 43 years ago