.bitnet was a pseudo-domain-style suffix used in the late 1980s when identifying a hostname not connected directly to the
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
but possibly reachable through inter-network gateways. In this case, it indicated that the hostname preceding it was reachable via the
BITNETBITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York and Greydon Freeman at Yale University...
network. This was one of several apparent "top-level domains" that were not actually in the Internet
Domain Name SystemThe Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants...
(DNS) root, but were sometimes used in addresses during the time when non-Internet networks remained in wide use.
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.bitnet was a pseudo-domain-style suffix used in the late 1980s when identifying a hostname not connected directly to the
InternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
but possibly reachable through inter-network gateways. In this case, it indicated that the hostname preceding it was reachable via the
BITNETBITNET was a cooperative U.S. university network founded in 1981 by Ira Fuchs at the City University of New York and Greydon Freeman at Yale University...
network. This was one of several apparent "top-level domains" that were not actually in the Internet
Domain Name SystemThe Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants...
(DNS) root, but were sometimes used in addresses during the time when non-Internet networks remained in wide use.