On 09/08/2016 11:43 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 09/01/2016 06:36 PM, Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Yes! I vaguely remember that form. I believe you got the form by sending a carefully crafted email to an address at the InterNIC.
Not quite. The blank forms were available via FTP from ftp.internic.net. They were just text files; one pulled them up in an editor, filled in the blanks, and sent them to domreg@internic.net for processing. There were several forms for different purposes. The forms were parsed by shell scripts on a SunOS system in Virginia and requests were rewritten into a normalized form for partially-automated processing. Any errors in the parsing caused the form to be shunted off to a human (whom I dated very briefly, and later sharked from InterNIC and hired...how's that for name-dropping!) for manual processing.
The InterNIC became Network Solutions when Al Gore invented the commercial Internet - an event we all remember.
Yeah the Al Gore thing was the source of endless laughter. :)
You did not need to download an FTP form every time - I just saved the same original as a template, edited to the next domain to register, re-use.
Not meaning this as rudely as it'll come across, but: "Duh". ;)
I still have a copy of at least one of these.
I just found mine too, man that brought back some memories! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA