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Re:Lessons for uncultured web developers by gsb on Monday September 10, 2012 @09:00AM (#4499504)
> You could buy a .com address years before the internet existed outside the US.

The .com tld was created in 1984, at which point there had already been international links for over a decade, so that doesn't really support the argument.

Re:Lessons for uncultured web developers by klodolph on Monday September 10, 2012 @10:57AM (#4500124)
I thought that the links, at the time, went mostly to other networks -- ones running X.25 or something.
Re:Lessons for uncultured web developers by mtoddh on Monday September 10, 2012 @11:21AM (#4500235)
X.25 - that is a blast from the past. I think JANET and Autonet had gateways where you could hop from one to the other (ie, TCP/IP to X.25).