[governance] Need Help - History of Internet Governance

Jeanette Hofmann jeanette at wz-berlin.de
Wed Oct 5 08:53:09 EDT 2005



Jovan Kurbalija wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> We are working on the Internet Governance DVD. One part of the DVD will
> focus on the evolution of IG. I have two questions:
> 
> - When did the mapping of numbers to names first begin? Was the network
> initially created with number addresses and were names added later on? Any
> concrete info?

As far as I know, the first delegated domain was symbolics.com. It was 
registered in early 1985.
jeanette
> 
> - Does anyone have, by any chance, the numbers and names of the first
> computers connected to the network?
> 
> Everything becomes clearer later on, with Postel, DNS, etc. Your
> contribution will be properly acknowledged in the DVD. Thank you in advance.
> 
> 
> Jovan
> 
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> 
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