Open up any domain’s DNS settings and you’ll see a wall of cryptic codes — A, AAAA, MX, TXT, SRV, CAA, SVCB — and it genuinely looks like someone kept bolting random parts onto an old engine. Which, honestly, is exactly what happened. Every single one of these record types exists because the internet hit a wall that the existing records couldn’t get past, and once you see that history laid out, the whole mess actually starts to make sense.