How did people entered websites in the early days of the internet?

How did people entered websites in the early days of the internet?

Did they have to know the IP address of the host or has urls always existed?

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So they used ips then. Gotcha

when you enter google.com
its send a DNS request which translate the string to 172.217.16.206
than your computer check if it is in your network...
when he understand that is not he go to the gateway to your ISP/internet than he found the ip of the server on that external network
that is basically networking 101
all the internet its just routers and servers acting the same way as your LAN

How is it that the isp have monopoly on the internet connection? Why cant we just connect directly?

>How is it that power companies have a monopoly on power? Why can't we just get electricity directly?

you pay the ISP to get you out of your local network when its needed
they pay to maintain the infrastructure
optical cables, satellites or whatever
It costs them with electricity and equipment

If I register a isp company, will I get direct connection? If only expenses is electricity and hardware then you already pay for what is needed for one connection.

>If I register a isp company
no matter where you live
the bureaucracy and the general payment are not worth it

That's what the hosts file was originally for. You would add all of the urls and ips of sites you used and it would perform the translation. So people would share a massive hosts file containing most of the internet.

Domain names predate the web I think

The answer is this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone

You usually had link lists. And you built your own.

>what is solar

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering

>meanwhile, in random places in NA the internet is 30 bucks a month for fiber runs directly to your house and reliable gigabit speeds because they've set up local ISP's run by passionate consumers who didn't want to pay 100 bucks a month for 10mbps

yeah, clearly not worth it. Hell, some of them even just run a wireless dish-based network off of a set of parabolic antennae for dirt cheap. 200 bucks for install, and if you let them run/relay signals to other houses in your area it's free.

You're a shill for big telecom, aren't you?

A direct connection to what? Even the ISPs have payment agreements with each other and with back bone providers. A huge number of companies own little slices of the physical hardware which runs the internet. You have to pay to use their shit. The only way to avoid this is to start your own internet. Once you get a few thousand people using your network you'll realize how expensive it is. Oh wait, you'd never get that big, because nobody wants to join Billy Bob's private internet with literally nothing on it.

we used AOL keywords

Fuck off jared, go get kiddie nudes or whatever it is that you do. stop tech larping.

Thats been mostly disproven, he's still a dick to his ex, but the teenager accusing him is mentally ill

not what he's asking

based

>what is meshnet
And no, I'm not implying meshnets are a perfect viable option yet. Just that they are allegorically similar in the "do things yourself" way.

They had domain names, but not URLs. URLs came along with The Web. Earlier internet applications like FTP or Gopher would usually ask for a host name/IP, port, and path to a specific resource as separate fields. It was only later that they retroactively got snappy URL syntax like ftp://:/ or gopher://host:port/ in the vein of HTTP URLs.

>websites
>early days of the internet
Kek.
But let's pretend, sweet zoomer, that you didn't unironically say that. DNS predates the WWW by quite a margin - so, as to not overload your peanut brain: yes, URLs "have always existed".

>websites
>early days of the internet
Some systems had modems you could direct dial into to access services or there were BBSes (isolated, echo networked or internet-connected) all over the world but then you'd need to sell a kidney and take out a second mortgage to pay the phone company.

>tfw even your 10,000 person town had half a dozen local ISPs

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