Re: Blast from the past

[Jeff Weisberg <jaw at Op.Net>]

quoth perry at piermont.com:
|
| danmcd at ENG.SUN.COM (Dan McDonald) writes:
| > 
| > Speaking of that, does anyone know where one could find a copy (final,
| > historical, or otherwise) of HOSTS.TXT?  I barely remember huge /etc/hosts
| > files, and it would be historically interesting to peruse, I think.

a quick bit of altavistaing tuned up:
	http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/reference/net-directory/host-tables/hosts.txt
	; DoD Internet Host Table
	;  30-Aug-90
	;  Version number 983


| I'm curious when HOSTS.TXT finally died completely.
|
| I had a machine at Bellcore that I used for hosting a couple of
| mailing lists, and I (well, it -- I automated the process) was still
| periodically downloading HOSTS.TXT off of SRI-NIC.ARPA (I think) as
| late as '88 or maybe even early '89 if I'm not totally


My memory isn't what it used to be, but at rochester.edu, I'm
thinking it had to be in use until at least 89 or 90.


	--jeff