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The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
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Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...