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When you invent the internet but forget to register your own domain... oops.

The University of California schools think of themselves as independent entities, independent entities that just happened to all pick the same school colors.

berkeley.edu (where "University of CA" is a subtitle), ucla.edu, ucdavis.edu, etc.

sometime later:

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/

No, this isn't the case at all. I attended UCSC (ucsc.edu), and then UCSF (ucsf.edu) and was a postdoc at UCB (berkeley.edu). They are fairly integrated in a lot of ways. The term itself "Berkeley" can be used in context so that people can tell you mean the University, not the city. That's rarer for the other schools.

Also, Berkeley was the first real UC campus.

I think Berkeley has its own bare domain because their name was registered before the UC naming conventions were established. I'm pretty sure it was the first or second name registered. https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9_16_5/history.html

Not sure of that, though- in the old HOSTS.TXT predating DNS, UC Berkeley was called UCB, and the server ucbvax became ucbvax.berkeley.edu.

I think it's funny now they teach classes at Berkeley about stuff (DNS, nuclear energy) and the research was done just 30-70 years ago right on the same spot!

They are more separate than University of Cincinnati is. If someone in California asks what college you go to, you don't say "UC"....you say "UC Berkeley" (or "Cal") or "UCLA" or the like. But you simply say "UC" if you are in Ohio and go to Univ of Cincinnati.

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