Waldo Jaquith

As of maybe 1994 I was determined not to use domain names. I memorized IP addresses for everything. This somehow seemed fast, more reliable, and less brittle (it is possibly the first, if my time is worthless, but definitely not the other two). As it turned out, that didn’t scale. But for maybe six months I made it work.

This story has no moral.

Nov 2, 2022 at 8:16pmWeb
Show threadDave Lane  🇳🇿Nov 2, 2022
@waldoj I appreciate you undertaking that exercise in the past so the rest of us don't have to. Today we know that SMI in modern web servers and the size of the IPV4 address space made it a Sisyphusian endeavour.
Show threadajdeconNov 3, 2022
@waldoj I get this. I’ve dealt with so much DNS pain over the years, I understand the temptation to just opt out. Names are nonsense, use numbers like God intended.
Show threadJeff UphoffNov 5, 2022

@waldoj Around the same time, I decided to read web pages by scripting a telnet to port 80 of the server and dumping the GET to the terminal. Browsers had become annoying with fonts and blinks and animated images.

Also didn’t scale. :)

Show threadℒᶏ⍵®ℰи¢ℨ Ŧ.⎣ℰ⋎ȋⓃęNov 7, 2022
@waldoj try that with IPv6.