[LINK] Why www.etc?

[Ivan Trundle]

On 04/12/2007, at 10:12 PM, steve jenkin wrote:

> Ivan Trundle wrote on 4/12/07 7:48 PM:
>
> Never thought of your comment before - designed from scratch, its the
> logical way to do it!
>
> DNS arrived to replace the _single_ /etc/hosts file that was copied
> around to every machine.
> [At ~4,000 hosts, they thought 'we need a database', version control &
> updates were killing them]
> It came 10-15 years before WWW.
>
> The ordering, low to high, makes sense in the context of the major App
> of the time - email.

True enough, but it is interesting that it carried over to other  
protocols: a bit like QWERTY keyboards, I suppose.

It wouldn't make sense to do it differently for each, but then e-mail  
could have been reversed, or more logically, www could have been  
reversed:

default.htm/scienceshow/rn/abc.net.au//:http

or possibly

htm.default/scienceshow/rn/abc.net.au//:http

or even more bravely,

index.html at scienceshow/rn/abc.net.au

...would make some sense...

Warmly

iT


>
>
> Eg [for host.oz.au]:
>    steve,
>    steve at host,
>    steve at host.oz,
>    steve at host.oz.au,
>    steve at host!BITNET [correct syntax, but not correct in this example]
>
> Does that sound right to you?
> [BTW: If you want a definitive answer, Chris Maltby is your guy. Is  
> more
> available that kre and Piers Lauder]
> [The co-author of ACSnet/MHSnet with Piers was Bob Kummerfled, still
> teaching at Sydney Uni. Good academic source]
>
> cheers
> s
>> Linkers
>>
>> I'm sure that someone will have an answer out in Link land, but given
>> the origins of the internet, and the www space, why is it that we  
>> have
>> backwards web addresses?
>>
>> Surely sites should be in the following order (example follows):
>>
>> http://au.net.abc/rn/scienceshow/default.htm
>>
>> ...rather than the current mishmash?
>>
>> (Sent at 200712041949...)
>>
>> iT
>>
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