The practice of using a name as a more human-legible abstraction of a machine's
numerical address on the network predates even TCP/IP, and goes all the way to
the ARPAnet era. Back then however, a different system was used, as DNS was only
invented in 1983, shortly after TCP/IP was deployed. With the older system,
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