Re: why www?

On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Nick Taylor wrote:
> And you can't have just
> swissbank.com as this would point to a domain rather than a
> machine,

Actually you can; lut.ac.uk is our campus domain but you can connect to 
that DNS name and actually be transported to info.lut.ac.uk (aka 
www.lut.ac.uk and agate.lut.ac.uk).  That machine is our campus WWW 
Information Gateway - by no means the only HTTP server on campus but 
(supposedly) the main University presence in the Web.

Ain't the DNS wonderful, eh? :-)

Jon

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Received on Thursday, 14 December 1995 06:44:28 UTC