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DNS makes the Internet easier to navigate
From How the Internet Was Built: From Four Computers to a Global Network
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Infrastructure
DNS makes the Internet easier to navigate
The Domain Name System replaced an increasingly unmanageable central host list with a distributed hierarchy of memorable names.
Computers communicate using numerical Internet Protocol addresses, but DNS lets people use names and delegates responsibility through a hierarchy. It became essential to scaling the network and supported familiar top-level domains such as .com, .org and .edu.Sources & references 2 sources
