I had in my backlog a long post from Cloudflare about the history of URL. It actually contains much more info. So it is a really nice reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/the-history-of-the-url<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are many things that I didnt know but these two caught my attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n I knew there were 13 root DNS cluster but I didnt think the reason why was the UDP packet size!<\/p>\n\n\n\n And from Punycode, interesting you can create emoji urls!<\/p>\n\n\n\n http:\/\/www.xn--vi8hiv.ws\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had in my backlog a long post from Cloudflare about the history of URL. It actually contains much more info. So it is a really nice reading: https:\/\/blog.cloudflare.com\/the-history-of-the-url There are many things that I didnt know but these two caught my attention: The root DNS zone of the internet is composed of thirteen DNS … Continue reading “History: URL and more”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The root DNS zone of the internet is composed of thirteen DNS server clusters. There are only 13 server clusters, because that\u2019s all we can fit in a single UDP packet. Historically, DNS has operated through UDP packets, meaning the response to a request can never be more than 512 bytes.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n