2 Feb
2017
2 Feb
'17
4:26 a.m.
https://emaillab.jp/pub/hosts/19840210/HOSTS.TXT
This is a version of the HOSTS file that I found in some of my old
floppies that was (sadly) truncated because of a bad sector (or twenty).
This was from my teens when I was floating around the ARPANET.
Some very interesting stuff here at the base site:
https://emaillab.jp/dns/hosts/
On 2/1/2017 4:20 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
From: Clem
Cole
don't expect a lot of wild and crazy names
Yeah, those arrived when places started to get lots of identical machines,
and needed a theme to name them. So I remember MIT-LCS had VAX 750's called
Tide, Borax, etc (cleaners); MIT-AI had Suns called Grape-Nuts, Wheaties, etc
(cereals).
I know other places had similar name sets, but I can't recall the themes of
any of them - although looking at an old HOSTS.TXT, I see CMU had systems
called Faraday, Gauss, etc, while Purdue had Fermat, Newton, etc; U-Texas had
Disney characters, BBN had fish, U-Washington had South Pacific islands - the
list just goes on and on.
Google for a old Host file, that's a good source if you want to know more.
Noel