RE: [cobalt-users] H4CK3R5

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I would note that rfc920 described .com before there was any non-us
> internet, and it wasn't until 1994 (rfc1591) that anyone actually came
> out and stated that 'yes, these are/were for anyone'
>
> (some of us have been around that long -)

gsh, I do regret ripping your head off. I'll admit to being slighly
sensitive on the subject, since I'm from Guatemala and spent 10 years
living in the USA. You get really tired of the "Is that in Africa?"
comments and even the occasional "But don't you fall out of the trees
when you're sleeping?" Even at Harvard, the cultural black hole was
amazing.

But you're right... the com/net/org were created before the ROW used the
Net and thus have always been seen as US-based. In fact, I tell my
clients that the USA got to use com/net/org as their default since they
got there first. Due credit given.

My first email was on a shell, via UUCP, in 1989. We *have* come a long
way.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>