[rescue] - hosts.txt from early or mid-1980's

[kevin at pipeline.com]

Wow, Symbolics is number one, John Gilmore is there too, pretty cool.

I would not have guessed that Adobe would have been online at that time.

Neat stuff

/KRM

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:13:39AM -0500, Ahmed Ewing wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Scott Mickey <mickey at denver.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  Before DNS, there was just a single hosts.txt file.
> >  Everyone downloaded it from SRI-NIC (anon ftp to 10.0.0.73).
> >  Many RFC's and web pages about the history of DNS describe
> >  the hosts.txt file.  However, I cannot find an actual
> >  hosts.txt file from the early or mid-1980's.
> >  RFC 920, dated October 1984, talks about a temporary
> >  Top Level Domain = .arpa and several new TLD's:
> >  .gov, .edu, .com, .mil, and .org.
> >  I would like to see a version of hosts.txt that has these
> >  "new" TLD's.  I am fairly certain such a hosts.txt was
> >  being maintained before DNS (BIND) was widely deployed.
> 
> Here's one from '88:
> http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/bb-ev83b-bm/01/new-system/hosts.txt.html
> 
> >  Why do I want an old hosts.txt?
> >  I am curious to see a list of the first 100 or so .com
> >  domains in existence.
> 
> IMHO, that would be a pretty masochistic way to get your list--there's
> no concept of chronology within them and there's *lots* of lines to
> parse. Luckily, the dirty work has already been done for you:
> http://www.jottings.com/100-oldest-dot-com-domains.htm
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> -A
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