[thelist] web page extensions

[Madhu Menon]

At 03:14 PM 26-07-02, Mark Gallagher wrote:
>(in the case of Microsoft's IIS, it looks for default.htm or
>default.asp,

This can be changed, of course, and any decent web hosting company would
add index.html, index.htm and variants thereof to the list of default
documents.

>because Microsoft's other motto is "making things difficult
>since 1985").

Hmmm... Microsoft was founded in 1975, and went public in 1986. What's the
significance of 1985?

Regards,

Madhu