The afterthought that took over the internet On April 26, 1985, a man called Charles Hornig complained on a mailing list that his new symbolics.com email address wasn’t working. Scanning every mail server on the internet, all 1,008 of them, he discovered only one was configured to handle a .com address.… Offloading malware protection to the cloud
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