Two browser's, Firefox and dolphin, can't show web pages for wikipedia.ord, and some other websites I can't recall right now.
Opera can see all the websites. I've checked settings in both browser's and can't find what's causing the problem.
There doesn't seem to be an app on my phone for filtering websites. I thought it was my internet provider until I realized another phone and tablet aren't having this problem.
Unfortunately, although "https://208.80.154.224/wiki/Main_Page" will get something, it doesn't get the main page you're trying to reach. Their server appears to require the domain name (presumably in the usually invisible Host: header field derived from the URL, so that the server can tell whether you wanted www. , en. , or some other prefix).
If ping of the address works, look into the DNS server problem. -WBE
Huh, I never knew of that document. RFC1591 (March 1994) adds the ever popular .INT (popular as in not really used, except for nato.int) and the country codes. That's the RFC I knew.
Floodgap: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/
Has a Veronica: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/v2
But not an Archie. My recollection is Archie was for ftp searches. I remember getting results by email. And wikipedia confirms my recollections:
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Elijah
------ has used gopher in 2017 (and 2016), but only to see if gopher still works
Actually. ISO-3166 Country codes were part of RFC0920. If you really want to go back, have a look at RFC0819 from August 1982 - where there was _one_ domain proposed - .arpa (RFC0799 from September 1981 is one of the earlier proposals - lots of hand-waving, not much concrete.)
Was that a "whoosh-bird"? WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) was one of the first general search-engines - Try RFC1625. Haven't seen anyone stroking 210/tcp lately - so maybe they've given up on it.
"Veronica" (Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives) was an index to gopher servers.
Supposedly, there is still one out-there. I'm not sure how useful it might be (see the wonkypedia page).
Way back then, there were a handful of systems out there, mainly running on college servers (but that pre-supposed you had real-time Internet access - many did not). I used to access the one at unl.edu via telnet - once you logged in (as user "archie") you could search the local listings - which might lead you to another archie server that had what you were looking for. Wonder how many remember servers like simtel20 or wuarchive, or the well-named "rtfm.mit.edu". I used to have a weekly cron-job that connected to sunsite to grab a copy of the /pub/linux/ls-lR.gz file (a recursive directory listing created nightly) so I could 'zdiff' it to see "what's new".
I remember using Archie and gopher a long time ago. But it does not help the guy with the DNS problems .... There was even a service where you sent an email with the URL and they sent you the archived webpage/file. Precious savings in the days of dialup connections and downloads charged by kilobyte. Was that a Simtel thing ? Can't remember. []'s
That was one of the ways you could use Archie. My first "home" computer was an Osborne 1 (running CP/M which predates M/S DOS) and came with an attached 300 baud modem. I was lucky in that the dialin server was a local call, but when the (local) storage media was a single-sided single density (91 kb) floppy, you weren't downloading for long (wow - it also had 64 k of RAM).
Simtel20 was a mainframe at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and it had _hundreds_ of free-ware and share-ware programs. The "wuarchive" was at Washington University in St. Louis, and also had a huge amount of downloadable stuff - as did oakland.edu in Minnesota.
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