This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.
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LaurieWired
lauriewired.bsky.social
did:plc:prywlo5q2i434jue7ywslkep
In the ARPANET era, every host->address mapping lived in a single text file.
Entries were updated *by hand* at the Stanford Research Institute.
By the 80s, this was getting out of control.
DNS was developed as the automated map from IP addresses to human-readable domains.
2025-08-04T20:57:24.424Z